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The scaling of the number, the mean-squared end-to-end distance, and the mean displacement in the direction of the first step, for semiflexible chains on the square, triangular and simple cubic lattices are investigated by enumerating self-avoiding walks classified according to the number of turns. Simple scaling forms are found to describe adequately all the available data. Estimates of the scaling functions are obtained and compared with the Gaussian results, when available. Self-avoidance effects are suppressed but do not vanish identically ind=3, contrary to recent theoretical expectations.
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Privman, V., Redner, S. Series enumeration study of the rod-to-coil transition of linear polymer chains. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 67, 129–138 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307315
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307315