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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 85, Issue 12, Pages 2522-2525Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2522
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We map dilute or semidilute solutions of nonintersecting polymer chains onto a fluid of soft particles interacting via a concentration dependent effective pair potential, by inverting the pair distribution function of the centers of mass of the initial polymer chains. A similar inversion is used to derive an effective wall-polymer potential; these potentials are combined to successfully reproduce the calculated exact depletion interaction induced by nonintersecting polymers between two walls. The mapping opens up the possibility of large-scale simulations of polymer solutions in complex geometries.
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