Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1995-12-14
Journal de Physique (France) I, 6 (1996) 493.
Physics
Condensed Matter
REVTEX, 16 pages with 5 postscript figures compressed using uufiles. Accepted for publication in J. Phys. France I
Scientific paper
10.1051/jp1:1996226
A disclination in a hexatic membrane favors the development of Gaussian curvature localized near its core. The resulting global structure of the membrane has mean curvature, which is disfavored by curvature energy. Thus a membrane with an isolated disclination undergoes a buckling transition from a flat to a buckled state as the ratio $\kappa/K_{A}$ of the bending rigidity $\kappa$ to the hexatic rigidity $K_{A}$ is decreased. In this paper we calculate the buckling transition and the energy of both a positive and a negative disclination. A negative disclination has a larger energy and a smaller critical value of $\kappa/K_{A}$ at buckling than does a positive disclination. We use our results to obtain a crude estimate of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature in a membrane. This estimate is higher than the transition temperature recently obtained by the authors in a renormalization calculation.
Lubensky Tom. C.
Park Jeong-Man
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