Title

New Analytical Results on Anisotropic Membranes

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Mark Bowick, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NYFollow
Alex Travesset, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Date

9-15-1998

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We report on recent progress in understanding the tubular phase of self-avoiding anisotropic membranes. After an introduction to the problem, we sketch the renormalization group arguments and symmetry considerations that lead us to the most plausible fixed point structure of the model. We then employ an epsilon-expansion about the upper critical dimension to extrapolate to the physical interesting 3-dimensional case. The results are $\nu=0.62$ for the Flory exponent and $\zeta=0.80$ for the roughness exponent. Finally we comment on the importance that numerical tests may have to test these predictions.

Additional Information

LATTICE98(surfaces), 3 pages, 2 eps figures More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9809110

Recommended Citation

Bowick, Mark and Travesset, Alex, "New Analytical Results on Anisotropic Membranes" (1998). Physics - All Scholarship. 163.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/163

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

Creative Commons License

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