Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes

Details Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes

1997-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705059v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 885

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, LaTeX, REVTEX, final published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.885

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 $\zeta$. 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 $\zeta=1$.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-205416