Fisher Renormalization for Logarithmic Corrections (2008)
Kenna, Ralph, Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Von Ferber, Christian
For continuous phase transitions characterized by power-law divergences, Fisher renormalization prescribes how to obtain the critical exponents for a system under constraint from their ideal...
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Paul, Wolfgang, Binder, Kurt
Extensive Monte Carlo results are presented for a lattice model of a bottle-brush polymer under good solvent or Theta solvent conditions. Varying the side chain length, backbone length, and the...
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Binder, Kurt, Klushin, Leonid I., Skvortsov, Alexander M.
A polymer chain containing $N$ monomers confined in a finite cylindrical tube of diameter $D$ grafted at a distance $L$ from the open end of the tube may undergo a rather abrupt transition, where...
Dragging a polymer chain into a nanotube and subsequent release (2008)
Klushin, Leonid I., Skvortsov, Alexander M., Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Binder, Kurt
We present a scaling theory and Monte Carlo (MC) simulation results for a flexible polymer chain slowly dragged by one end into a nanotube. We also describe the situation when the completely confined...
Bhattacharya, Swati, Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Milchev, Andrey, Rostiashvili, Vakhtang G., Vilgis, Thomas A.
The adsorption of a single multi-block $AB$-copolymer on a solid planar substrate is investigated by means of computer simulations and scaling analysis. It is shown that the problem can be mapped...
One- and two-component bottle-brush polymers: simulations compared to theoretical predictions (2007)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Paul, Wolfgang, Binder, Kurt
Scaling predictions and results from self-consistent field calculations for bottle-brush polymers with a rigid backbone and flexible side chains under good solvent conditions are summarized and their...
What is the order of 2D polymer escape transition? (2007)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Binder, Kurt, Klushin, Leonid I., Skvortsov, Alexander M.
An end-grafted flexible polymer chain in 3d space between two pistons undergoes an abrupt transition from a confined coil to a flower-like conformation when the number of monomers in the chain, N,...
Polymers grafted to porous membranes (2006)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Grassberger, Peter
We study a single flexible chain molecule grafted to a membrane which has pores of size slightly larger than the monomer size. On both sides of the membrane there is the same solvent. When this...
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Paul, Wolfgang, Binder, Kurt
A lattice model for a symmetrical copolymer "bottle brush" molecule, where two types (A,B) of flexible side chains are grafted with one chain end to a rigid backbone, is studied by a variant of the...
Collapsing lattice animals and lattice trees in two dimensions (2005)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Grassberger, Peter
We present high statistics simulations of weighted lattice bond animals and lattice trees on the square lattice, with fugacities for each non-bonded contact and for each bond between two neighbouring...
The coil-globule transition of confined polymers (2004)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Grassberger, Peter
We study long polymer chains in a poor solvent, confined to the space between two parallel hard walls. The walls are energetically neutral and pose only a geometric constraint which changes the...
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Nadler, Walter, Grassberger, Peter
We present simulations of 2-d site animals on square and triangular lattices in non-trivial geomeLattice animals are one of the few critical models in statistical mechanics violating conformal...
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Berg, Bernd A., Grassberger, Peter
Treating realistically the ambient water is one of the main difficulties in applying Monte Carlo methods to protein folding. The solvent-accessible area method, a popular method for treating water...
Simulations of lattice animals and trees (2004)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Nadler, Walter, Grassberger, Peter
The scaling behaviour of randomly branched polymers in a good solvent is studied in two to nine dimensions, using as microscopic models lattice animals and lattice trees on simple hypercubic...
Effective interactions between star polymers (2003)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Grassberger, Peter
We study numerically the effective pair potential between star polymers with equal arm lengths and equal number $f$ of arms. The simulations were done for the soft core Domb-Joyce model on the simple...
Scaling of Star Polymers with one to 80 Arms (2003)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Nadler, Walter, Grassberger, Peter
We present large statistics simulations of 3-dimensional star polymers with up to $f=80$ arms, and with up to 4000 monomers per arm for small values of $f$. They were done for the Domb-Joyce model on...
Polymers Confined between Two Parallel Plane Walls (2003)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Grassberger, Peter
Single three dimensional polymers confined to a slab, i.e. to the region between two parallel plane walls, are studied by Monte Carlo simulations. They are described by $N$-step walks on a simple...
2-Dimensional Polymers Confined in a Strip (2003)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Grassberger, Peter
Single two dimensional polymers confined to a strip are studied by Monte Carlo simulations. They are described by N-step self-avoiding random walks on a square lattice between two parallel hard walls...
Metropolis simulations of Met-Enkephalin with solvent-accessible area parameterizations (2003)
Berg, Bernd A., Hsu, Hsiao-Ping
We investigate the solvent-accessible area method by means of Metropolis simulations of the brain peptide Met-Enkephalin at 300$ K$. For the energy function ECEPP/2 nine atomic solvation parameter...
Structure optimization in an off-lattice protein model (2003)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Mehra, Vishal, Grassberger, Peter
We study an off-lattice protein toy model with two species of monomers interacting through modified Lennard-Jones interactions. Low energy configurations are optimized using the...
Collapsed 2-Dimensional Polymers on a Cylinder (2002)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Grassberger, Peter
Single partially confined collapsed polymers are studied in two dimensions. They are described by self-avoiding random walks with nearest-neighbour attractions below the $\Theta$-point, on the...
A Growth-based Optimization Algorithm for Lattice Heteropolymers (2002)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Mehra, Vishal, Nadler, Walter, Grassberger, Peter
An improved version of the pruned-enriched-Rosenbluth method (PERM) is proposed and tested on finding lowest energy states in simple models of lattice heteropolymers. It is found to outperform not...
Growth Algorithms for Lattice Heteropolymers at Low Temperatures (2002)
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Mehra, Vishal, Nadler, Walter, Grassberger, Peter
Two improved versions of the pruned-enriched-Rosenbluth method (PERM) are proposed and tested on simple models of lattice heteropolymers. Both are found to outperform not only the previous version of...
Stretched Polymers in a Poor Solvent (2001)
Grassberger, Peter, Hsu, Hsiao-Ping
Stretched polymers with attractive interaction are studied in two and three dimensions. They are described by biased self-avoiding random walks with nearest neighbour attraction. The bias corresponds...
Hsu, Hsiao-Ping, Lin, Simon C., Hu, Chin-Kun
Percolation models with multiple percolating clusters have attracted much attention in recent years. Here we use Monte Carlo simulations to study bond percolation on $L_{1}\times L_{2}$ planar random...