%0 Journal Article
%T Simple flexible polymers in a spherical cage
%A M. Marenz
%A J. Zierenberg
%A H. Ark£¿n
%A W. Janke
%J Condensed Matter Physics
%D 2012
%I Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
%X We report the results of Monte Carlo simulations investigating the effect of a spherical confinement within a simple model for a flexible homopolymer. We use the parallel tempering method combined with multi-histogram reweighting analysis and multicanonical simulations to investigate thermodynamical observables over a broad range of temperatures, which enables us to describe the behavior of the polymer and to locate the freezing and collapse transitions. We find a strong effect of the spherical confinement on the location of the collapse transition, whereas the freezing transition is hardly effected.
%K Monte Carlo simulation
%K bead-stick polymer
%K collapse transition
%K freezing transitions
%K confinement
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.5488/CMP.15.43008