Polymers near scale-free boundaries: Forces and phase transitions
Raz Halifa Levi, Mohammad Maghrebi
Yacov Kantor, Mehran Kardar
Outline
I. Polymer force on conical tip: Attractive and repulsive surfaces, and universal amplitudes
II. Phantom polymers: Exact results for force amplitude at and beyond adsorption transition
III. Self-avoiding polymers: Numerical results, ε-expansions, star polymers
IV. Unbinding transition: Phantom polymers on a surface and corner
V. Attractive Edge: angle-dependent criticality
IV. Summary