Decrumpling membranes by quantum effects
M. E. S. Borelli; H. Kleinert; M. E. S. Borelli; Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin - Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin; H. Kleinert; Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin - Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin
Журнал:
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Дата:
2001-02-01
Аннотация:
The phase diagram of an incompressible fluid membrane subject to quantum and thermal fluctuations is calculated exactly in a large number of dimensions of configuration space. At zero temperature, a crumpling transition is found at a critical bending rigidity 1/α<sub>c</sub>. For membranes of fixed lateral size, a crumpling transition occurs at nonzero temperatures in an auxiliary mean field approximation. As the lateral size L of the membrane becomes large, the flat regime shrinks with 1/ln L.
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