Freezing and collapse in the thermodynamic limit

From the results for the freezing and the collapse transition, we conclude that for selfavoiding interacting polymers with stiff bonds on regular lattices both transitions remain well separated in the extrapolation toward the thermodynamic limit. This is the expected behavior as it is a consequence of the extremely short range of attraction in the models used. Considering a more general square-well contact potential between nonbonded monomers in our parametrization, 

Qualitatively, analogous to the behavior of colloids, the separate stable crystal, globule, and random-coil (pseudo)phases can be explained. Since the range of interactions 

First insights to freezing and coiiapse of fiexibie poiymers 

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