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Fluid Random Surfaces with Extrinsic Curvature: II

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We present the results of an extension of our previous work on large-scale simulations of dynamically triangulated toroidal random surfaces embedded in R3R^3 with extrinsic curvature. We find that the extrinsic-curvature specific heat peak ceases to grow on lattices with more than 576 nodes and that the location of the peak \lamc\lam_c also stabilizes. The evidence for a true crumpling transition is still weak. If we assume it exists we can say that the finite-size scaling exponent ανd\frac {\alpha} {\nu d} is very close to zero or negative. On the other hand our new data does rule out the observed peak as being a finite-size artifact of the persistence length becoming comparable to the extent of the lattice.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9308091,
  title  = {Fluid Random Surfaces with Extrinsic Curvature: II},
  author = {Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos and Mark Bowick and Paul Coddington and Marco Falcioni and Leping Han and Geoffrey Harris and Enzo Marinari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9308091},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 11 pages, two figures, (the original version of this paper had an hep-lat preprint number instead of an hep-th number- this is the only change)

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