FLUID RANDOM SURFACES WITH EXTRINSIC CURVATURE .2.

Citation
K. Anagnostopoulos et al., FLUID RANDOM SURFACES WITH EXTRINSIC CURVATURE .2., Physics letters. Section B, 317(1-2), 1993, pp. 102-106
Citations number
47
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
317
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
102 - 106
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1993)317:1-2<102:FRSWEC>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We present the results of an extension of our previous work on large-s cale simulations of dynamically triangulated toroidal random surfaces embedded in R3 with extrinsic curvature. We find that the extrinsic-cu rvature specific heat peak ceases to grow on lattices with more than 5 76 nodes and that the location of the peak lambda(c) also stabilizes. The evidence for a true crumpling transition is still weak. If we assu me it exists we can say that the finite-size scaling exponent alpha/nu d is very close to zero or negative. On the other hand our new data do es rule out the observed peak as being a finite-size artifact of the p ersistence length becoming comparable to the extent of the lattice.