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Field-theoretic simulations (FTS) offer a versatile method of dealing with complicated block copolymer systems, but unfortunately they struggle to cope with the level of fluctuations typical of experiments. Although the main obstacle, an ultraviolet divergence, can be removed by renormalizing the Flory-Huggins χ parameter, this only works for unrealistically large invariant polymerization indexes, N¯. Here, we circumvent the problem by applying the Morse calibration, where a nonlinear relationship between the bare χ used in FTS and the effective χ corresponding to the standard Gaussian-chain model is obtained by matching the disordered-state structure function, S(k), of symmetric diblock copolymers to renormalized one-loop predictions. This calibration brings the order-disorder transition obtained from FTS into agreement with the universal results of particle-based simulations for values of N¯ characteristic of the experiment. In the limit of weak interactions, the calibration reduces to a linear approximation, χ ≈ zχ, consistent with the previous renormalization of χ for large N¯.

Calibration of the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter in field-theoretic simulations