TY - JOUR
T1 - Adsorption-Freezing Transition for Random Heteropolymers near Disordered 2D Manifolds due to “Pattern Matching”
AU - Srebnik, Simcha
AU - Chakraborty, Arup K.
AU - Shakhnovich, Eugene I.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - We study the simplest model for random heteropolymers near chemically disordered surfaces, and predict a new phenomenon that may have implications for pattern recognition applications. As the strength of surface fluctuations increases a smooth adsorption transition occurs first, with a multitude of chain conformations being sampled. More interestingly, beyond a larger threshold value of the strength of surface fluctuations, a sharp second adsorption transition is observed that is accompanied by the polymer freezing into a few dominant conformations that match the pattern of the surface fluctuations.
AB - We study the simplest model for random heteropolymers near chemically disordered surfaces, and predict a new phenomenon that may have implications for pattern recognition applications. As the strength of surface fluctuations increases a smooth adsorption transition occurs first, with a multitude of chain conformations being sampled. More interestingly, beyond a larger threshold value of the strength of surface fluctuations, a sharp second adsorption transition is observed that is accompanied by the polymer freezing into a few dominant conformations that match the pattern of the surface fluctuations.
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U2 - 10.1103/physrevlett.77.3157
DO - 10.1103/physrevlett.77.3157
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AN - SCOPUS:0030573865
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 77
SP - 3157
EP - 3160
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 15
ER -