Title

The Flat Phase of Fixed-Connectivity Membranes

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Simon Catterall, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Mark Bowick, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Marco Falcioni, Syracuse University
G. Thorleifsson, Syracuse University
Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos, The Niels Bohr Institute, BlegdamsvejFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

8-8-1996

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

The statistical mechanics of flexible two-dimensional surfaces (membranes) appears in a wide variety of physical settings. In this talk we discuss the simplest case of fixed-connectivity surfaces. We first review the current theoretical understanding of the remarkable flat phase of such membranes. We then summarize the results of a recent large scale Monte Carlo simulation of the simplest conceivable discrete realization of this system \cite{BCFTA}. We verify the existence of long-range order, determine the associated critical exponents of the flat phase and compare the results to the predictions of various theoretical models.

Additional Information

7 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables. LaTeX w/epscrc2.sty, combined contribution of M. Falcioni and M. Bowick to LATTICE96(gravity), to appear in Nucl. Phys. B (proc. suppl.) More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9608044

Recommended Citation

Catterall, Simon; Bowick, Mark; Falcioni, Marco; Thorleifsson, G.; and Anagnostopoulos, Konstantinos N., "The Flat Phase of Fixed-Connectivity Membranes" (1996). Physics - All Scholarship. 483.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/483

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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