2025/11/26 by C J Bradly, Bradly, C J, N R Beaton +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.21036
published as J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 59 085002 (2026) · 15 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2025/11/26 · arxiv updated 2026/08/04
We investigate polymers pulled away from an interacting surface, where the force is applied to the untethered endpoint and at an angle θ to the surface. We use the canonical self-avoiding walk model of polymers and obtain the phase diagram of the model using Monte Carlo simulations for a range of angles, temperatures and force magnitudes. The phase diagram of the model displays re-entrance at low temperatures for three-dimensional walks when the pulling is more vertical than horizontal. Our results agree with various exactly solvable lattice models that have been previously studied.