THE CONFORMATION OF FLUID MEMBRANES - MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS
THE CONFORMATION OF FLUID MEMBRANES - MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS
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DOI:
10.1126/science.1546294
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发表时间:
1992-02-21
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
GOMPPER, G
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作者:
KROLL, DM;GOMPPER, G
The conformation and scaling properties of self-avoiding fluid membranes with an extrinsic bending rigidity-kappa were studied with the use of Monte Carlo methods. For kappa = 0, the results are consistent with branched polymer behavior at large length scales. There is a smooth crossover from a crumpled to an extended state with increasing kappa, with a peak in the specific heat when the persistence length reaches the system size. The scale-dependent effective bending rigidity is a decreasing function of system size for all bare rigidities. These results indicate that fluid membranes are always crumpled at sufficiently long length scales.