THE PHASE-DIAGRAM OF CRYSTALLINE SURFACES

We report the status of a high-statistics Monte Carlo simulation of no n-self-avoiding crystalline surfaces with extrinsic curvature on latti ces of size up to 128(2) nodes. We impose free boundary conditions. Th e free energy is a gaussian spring tethering potential together with a normal-normal bending energy. Particular emphasis is given to the beh avior of the model in the cold phase where we measure the decay of the normal-normal correlation function.