Anomalous elasticity, fluctuations and disorder in elastic membranes

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2017.08.033MaRDI QIDQ1635679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre Le Doussal, Leo Radzihovsky

Publication date 1 June 2018

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05723

zbMATH Keywords

glassesgraphenemembranesphase transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: Motivated by a freely suspended graphene and polymerized membranes in soft and biological matter we present a detailed study of a tensionless elastic sheet in the presence of thermal fluctuations and quenched disorder. The manuscript is based on an extensive draft dating back to 1993, that was circulated privately. It presents the general theoretical framework and calculational details of numerous results, partial forms of which have been published in brief Letters (Le Doussal and Radzihovsky 1992). The experimental realization of atom-thin graphene sheets has driven a resurgence in this fascinating subject, making our dated predictions and their detailed derivations timely. To this end we analyze the statistical mechanics of a generalized D-dimensional elastic "membrane" embedded in d dimensions using a self-consistent screening approximation (SCSA), that has proved to be unprecedentedly accurate in this system, exact in three complementary limits: d --> infinity, D --> 4, and D=d. Focusing on the critical "flat" phase, for a homogeneous two-dimensional membrane embedded in three dimensions, we predict its universal length-scale dependent roughness, elastic moduli exponents, and a universal negative Poisson ratio of -1/3. We also extend these results to short- and long-range correlated random heterogeneity, predicting a variety of glassy wrinkled membrane states. Finally, we also predict and analyze a continuous crumpling transition in a "phantom" elastic sheet. We hope that this detailed presentation of the SCSA theory will be useful for further theoretical developments and corresponding experimental investigations on freely suspended graphene.

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