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T1 Phase transition in tensionless surfaces
A1 Ruiz-Lorenzo, Juan Jesús
A1 Cuerno, Rodolfo
A1 Moro, Esteban
A1 Sánchez, Angel
AB We study the critical behavior of the Laplacian roughening model, which describes the growth of tensionless surfaces. This type of growth phenomena is very important, for instance, in biological membranes and in molecular beam epitaxy. We summarize previous analytical and numerical results and point out their contradictions and differences, thus making clear the context of our work. Our contribution, achieved through large-scale numerical simulations, is the confirmation that the model exhibits a single continuous phase transition: the transition takes place between a continuum massless (i.e., with infinite correlation length) bilaplacian behavior and a massive propagator (finite correlation length).
PB Elsevier
SN 0301-4622
YR 2005
FD 2005-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6909
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/6909
LA eng
NO 7 pages, 5 figures.-- Issue title: "BIFI 2004 International Conference Biology after the Genoma: A Physical View" (Saragossa, Spain, Feb 2004).
NO Partial financial support from CICyT (Spain) grants BFM2001-0718, BFM2003-08532-C03-02 (JJRL),BFM2003-07749-C05-01 (RC and AS), and BFM2002-04474-C02 (EM) is acknowledged. E.M. acknowledges a Ramón y Cajal contract by the Spanish MEC.
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