Anders Irbäck
Professor
Critical properties of the dynamical random surface with extrinsic curvature
Författare
Summary, in English
We analyze numerically the critical properties of a two-dimensional discretized random surface with extrinsic curvature embedded in a three-dimensional space. The use of the toroidal topology enables us to enforce the non-zero external extension without the necessity of defining a boundary and allows us to measure directly the string tension. We show that a most probably second- order phase transition from the crumpled phase to the smooth phase observed earlier for a spherical topology appears also for a toroidal surface for the same finite value of the coupling constant of the extrinsic curvature term. The phase transition is characterized by the vanishing of the string tension. We discuss the possible non-trivial continuum limit of the theory, when approaching the critical point.
Publiceringsår
1992-01-30
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
295-303
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Physics Letters B
Volym
275
Issue
3-4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Other Physics Topics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0370-2693