Nonvanishing string tension of elastic membrane models
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
By using the grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations on spherical surfaces with two fixed vertices separated by the distance L, we find that the second-order phase transition changes to the first-order one when L is sufficiently large. We find that string tension \sigma \not= 0 in the smooth phase while \sigma \to 0 in the wrinkled phase.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0411210,
title = {Nonvanishing string tension of elastic membrane models},
author = {Hiroshi Koibuchi and Nobuyuki Kusano and Atsusi Nidaira and Komei Suzuki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0411210},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages with 6 figures