Open AccessThe phase diagram of crystalline surfaces
Author(s) -
Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos,
Mark J. Bowick,
Simon Catterall
Publication year - 1995
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/176799
Subject(s) - gaussian curvature , phase diagram , monte carlo method , curvature , statistical physics , gaussian , boundary (topology) , measure (data warehouse) , function (biology) , phase boundary , phase (matter) , physics , energy (signal processing) , mathematics , geometry , statistics , mathematical analysis , computer science , quantum mechanics , database , evolutionary biology , biology
We report the status of a high-statistics Monte Carlo simulation of non-self-avoiding crystalline surfaces with extrinsic curvature on lattices of size up to 128{sup 2} nodes. We impose free boundary conditions. The free energy is a gaussian spring tethering potential together with a normal-normal bending energy. Particular emphasis is given to the behavior of the model in the cold phase where we measure the decay of the normal-normal correlation function