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We consider self-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice in which neighboring pairs of vertices of the walk (not connected by an edge) have an associated pair-wise additive energy. If the associated force is attractive, then the walk can collapse from a coil to a compact ball. We describe two Monte Carlo algorithms which we used to investigate this collapse process, and the properties of the walk as a function of the energy or temperature. We report results about the thermodynamic and configurational properties of the walks and estimate the location of the collapse transition.
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Tesi, M.C., Janse van Rensburg, E.J., Orlandini, E. et al. Monte carlo study of the interacting self-avoiding walk model in three dimensions. J Stat Phys 82, 155–181 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02189229
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