Floppy Membranes
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Floppy membranes are tensionless surfaces without extrinsic stiffness, whose fluctuations are governed by fourth-order bending elasticity. This suppresses spiky superstructures and ensures that floppy membranes remain smooth over any distance, with Hausdorff dimension D=2, in contrast to surfaces with stiffness, which are rough on the scale of some finite persistence length.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903021,
title = {Floppy Membranes},
author = {M. C. Diamantini and H. Kleinert and C. A. Trugenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903021},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, Latex