Flexible hard sphere chains
(Sometimes known as the pearl-necklace model)
References
- A. Isihara and R. Koyama "Theory of Dilute High-Polymer Solutions (the Pearl Necklace Model)", Journal of Chemical Physics 25 pp. 712-716 (1956)
- C. Vega, J. M. Labaig, L. G. MacDowell, and E. Sanz "The virial coefficients of the pearl-necklace model", Journal of Chemical Physics 113 pp. 10398-10409 (2000)
- R. Ni, and M. Dijkstra "Effect of bond length fluctuations on crystal nucleation of hard bead chains", Soft Matter 9 pp. 365-369 (2013)