Title

Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Mark Bowick, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NYFollow
Marco Falcioni, Syracuse University
Gudmar Thorleifsson, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Date

8-12-1997

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We provide the first numerical evidence for the existence of a tubular phase, predicted by Radzihovsky and Toner (RT), for anisotropic tethered membranes without self-avoidance. Incorporating anisotropy into the bending rigidity of a simple model of a tethered membrane with free boundary conditions, we show that the model indeed has two phase transitions corresponding to the flat-to-tubular and tubular-to-crumpled transitions. For the tubular phase we measure the Flory exponent \nu_F and the roughness exponent \zet. We find \nu_F=0.305(14) and \zeta=0.895(60), which are in reasonable agreement with the theoretical predictions of RT --- \nu_F=1/4 and \zeta=1.

Additional Information

pages, LaTeX, REVTEX, final published version More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705059

Recommended Citation

Bowick, Mark; Falcioni, Marco; and Thorleifsson, Gudmar, "Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes" (1997). Physics - All Scholarship. 165.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/165

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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