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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Soft Matter. 2017 Feb 8;13(6):1223–1234. doi: 10.1039/c6sm02756c

Table 3.

Analytical and simulation results for critical exponents ρ, νpath and ν of annealed isolated self-avoiding lattice trees in a θ-solvent for different spatial dimensionalities d. δνδνideal is defined as in Table 1. Currently available exact values or best estimates (in boldface) are reported as symbols in Fig. 3, where predictions of Flory theory are shown as lines. To our knowledge, analytical or simulation data for quenched isolated branched polymers in θ-solutions are currently missing.

Annealed branching polymers in dilute solutions in a θ-solvent

d ρ νpath ν δν
δνδνideal
Technique Reference
2 3/4=0.75 5/6=0.833 5/8 = 0.625 0.0891 31% Flory theory This work
2 0.54±0.03 0.0041 1% Monte Carlo Madras & J. van Rensburg (1997)59
2 0.5359±0.0003 Monte Carlo Hsu & Grassberger (2005)61
2 0.52±0.03 −0.0159 -6% Renormalization group Janssen & Stenull (2011)49
3 7/11=0.636 5/7=0.714 5/11 = 0.455 0.055 36% Flory theory This work
3 0.400 ±0.005 Monte Carlo Madras & J. van Rensburg (1997)59
3 0.396 ±0.007 −0.004 -3% Renormalization group Janssen & Stenull (2011)49
4 4/7=0.571 5/8=0.625 5/14 = 0.357 0.028 35% Flory theory This work
4 0.329 ± 0.002 Renormalization group Janssen & Stenull (2011)49
5 9/17=0.529 5/9=0.556 5/17 = 0.294 0.0091 26% Flory theory This work
5 0.2849 ± 0.0002 Renormalization group Janssen & Stenull (2011)49
6 1/2=0.5 1/2=0.5 1/4 = 0.25 0 0% Flory theory This work
6 0.25 Renormalization group Janssen & Stenull (2011)49