Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.111, No.12, 5603-5610, 1999
Localization of random copolymers at an interface: Numerical simulations
The scaling behavior of the conformational properties of localized random copolymers at a sharp interface is systematically examined. The Garel-Huse-Leibler-Orland model is solved numerically for the localized monomer density at various temperatures, chain lengths, and disorder distributions. The average monomer distance from the interface, the mean free energy, and the localization transition temperatures are all explicitly evaluated and compared with scaling predictions from analytic approaches.