Polymer melts correlation hole

K. S. Schweizer and J. G. Curro, Macromolecules, 21, 3070 (1988). Integral Equation Theory of Polymer Melts Intramolecular Structure, Local Order, and the Correlation Hole. 

The quality of the quasi-instantaneous field approximation and the ability of SCM F simulations to capture nontrivial correlation effects is illustrated by studying deviations from the Gaussian chain statistics due to the correlation hole effect in polymer solutions [94] and melt [95,96]. These intermolecular correlations result in a power-law decay of the intramolecular, bond-bond correlation function [95, 96] in a one-component melt as shown in Figure 5.4. 

Simha, R., Polymer and oligomer melts, thermodynamics, correlations, and lattice-hole theory. Polymer Engineering and Science, 36(12), pp. 1567-1573 (1996). 

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