Volume effects, nematic polymers

A third motivation is that with present day computers even for medium chain length N of the polymers it is very difficult to study collective long-wavelength phenomena (associated with phase transitions, phase eoexis-tence, etc.), since huge linear dimensions L of the simulation box and a huge number Nm of (effective) monomers in the simulation are required. For example, for a finite size scaling [11] study of the nematic isotropic phase transition in a model for a melt of semiflexible polymers a lattiee with L = 130 was used, and with the bond fluctuation model [12,13] at volume fraction of about occupied sites this choice allowed for 6865 chains... 

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