Status Confirmed Seminar Series SEM-LPTMC Subjects cond-mat Date Monday 4 July 2022 Time 10:45 Institute LPTMC Seminar Room salle 523 du LPTMC - Tour 12-13 Jussieu Speaker's Last Name Polovnikov Speaker's First Name Kirill Speaker's Email Address Speaker's Institution Title Constrained fractal polymer chain in curved geometry: how far is KPZ? Abstract Can intrinsic curvature of the space yield a similar regime of fluctuations as a certain type of random potentials? In this talk by means of scaling analyses of the free energy and computer simulations I will discuss stretching of a fractal polymer chain around a disc in 2D (or a cylinder in 3D) of radius R. The typical excursions of the polymer away from the surface scale as $\Delta \sim R^{\beta}$, with the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) growth exponent $\beta=1/3$ and the curvature-induced correlation length is described by the KPZ exponent z=3/2. Remarkably, the uncovered KPZ scaling is independent of the fractal dimension of the polymer and, thus, is universal across the classical polymer models, e.g. SAW, randomly-branching polymers, crumpled unknotted rings. The one-point distribution of fluctuations, as found in simulations, can be well described by the squared Airy law, connecting our 2D polymer problem with the (1+1)D Ferrari- Spohn universality class of constrained random walks. A relation between directed polymers in quenched random potential (KPZ) and stretched polymers above the semicircle will be explained. arXiv Preprint Number Comments Attachments

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