Spherical surface models with directors

DOI10.1007/S10955-009-9892-0MaRDI QIDQ963311zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hiroshi Koibuchi

Publication date 19 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2389

zbMATH Keywords

collapsing transitionfirst-order transitionsurface fluctuationtriangulated surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: A triangulated spherical surface model is numerically studied, and it is shown that the model undergoes phase transitions between the smooth phase and the collapsed phase. The model is defined by using a director field, which is assumed to have an interaction with a normal of the surface. The interaction between the directors and the surface maintains the surface shape. The director field is not defined within the two-dimensional differential geometry, and this is in sharp contrast to the conventional surface models, where the surface shape is maintained only by the curvature energies. We also show that the interaction makes the Nambu-Goto model well-defined, where the bond potential is given by the area of triangles; the Nambu-Goto model is well-known as an ill-defined one even when the conventional two-dimensional bending energy is included in the Hamiltonian.

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