Surface tension and Laplace pressure in triangulated surface models for membranes without fixed boundary

DOI10.1007/S10910-015-0564-9zbMATH Open1349.74230arXiv1509.07580OpenAlexW2176044200MaRDI QIDQ283776FDOQ283776

Authors: Hiroshi Koibuchi, Hideo Sekino, Andrey Shobukhov 

Publication date: 17 May 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A Monte Carlo (MC) study is performed to evaluate the surface tension $gamma$ of spherical membranes that may be regarded as the models of the lipid layers. We use the canonical surface model defined on the self-avoiding triangulated lattices. The surface tension $gamma$ is calculated by keeping the total surface area $A$ constant during the MC simulations. In the evaluation of $gamma$, we use $A$ instead of the projected area $A_p$, which is unknown due to the fluctuation of the spherical surface without boundary. The pressure difference $itDeltap$ between the inner and the outer sides of the surface is also calculated by maintaining the enclosed volume constant. Using $itDeltap$ and the Laplace formula, we obtain the tension, which is considered to be equal to the frame tension $au$ conjugate to $A_p$, and check whether or not $gamma$ is consistent with $au$. We find reasonable consistency between $gamma$ and $au$ in the region of sufficiently large bending rigidity $kappa$ or sufficiently large $A/N$. It is also found that $au$ becomes constant in the limit of $A/Noinfty$ both in the tethered and fluid surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07580

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zbMATH Keywords

surface tensionframe tensionLaplace formulamembranes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Membranes (74K15)

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• Self-avoiding tethered membranes at the tricritical point
• Relaminarization in highly favourable pressure gradients on a convex surface

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