Figure 5.

Structural phase diagram of $M=4$ polymers of length $N=13$ in the temperature-stiffness plane. The color map encodes the end-to-end correlation parameter from uncorrelated ($C_R=1/3$, orange) to correlated ($C_R=1$, white). Black dots denote peaks in the specific heat; blue squares indicate peaks in the phase-separation parameter with signal strength encoded in the color intensity. From the solute (S) regime, the polymers aggregate into amorphous aggregates ($A_1$) or polymer bundles ($A_2$) for low or high bending stiffness, respectively. At even lower temperatures, more ordered structures occur ($F_i$). Representative conformations are shown next to the diagram.