Critical behavior of interacting manifolds

Reinhard Lipowsky

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1991, vol. 177, issue 1, 182-188

Abstract: Low-dimensional manifolds which interact via attractive forces can undergo an unbinding transition from a bound state at low temperatures to an unbound state at high temperatures. Three model systems are considered for which the critical behavior at these transitions can be determined exactly: (i) two interfaces in spatial dimensionality d = 1 + 1 interacting with power-law interactions; (ii) the necklace model for p interfaces in d = 1 + 1; and (iii) two interacting strings in d = 1 + d⊥. It is shown that the critical behavior is identical for all three models provided one uses an appropriate identification of the model parameters.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(91)90151-2

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