SHAPE TRANSFORMATIONS OF A MODEL OF SELF-AVOIDING TRIANGULATED SURFACES OF SPHERE TOPOLOGY

Hiroshi Koibuchi ()
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Hiroshi Koibuchi: Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Ibaraki National College of Technology, Nakane 866 Hitachinaka, Ibaraki 312-8508, Japan

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2010, vol. 21, issue 11, 1341-1358

Abstract: We study a surface model with a self-avoiding (SA) interaction using the canonical Monte Carlo simulation technique on fixed-connectivity (FC) triangulated lattices of sphere topology. The model is defined by an area energy, a deficit angle energy, and the SA potential. A pressure term is also included in the Hamiltonian. The volume enclosed by the surface is well defined because of the self-avoidance. We focus on whether or not the interaction influences the phase structure of the FC model under two different conditions of pressureΔp; zero and small negative. The results are compared with the previous results of the self-intersecting model, which has a rich variety of phases; the smooth spherical phase, the tubular phase, the linear phase, and the collapsed phase. We find that the influence of the SA interaction on the multitude of phases is almost negligible except for the evidence that no crumpled surface appears underΔp = 0at least even in the limit of zero bending rigidityα → 0. The Hausdorff dimension is obtained in the limit ofα → 0and compared with previous results of SA models, which are different from the one in this paper.

Keywords: Triangulated surface model; self-avoiding interaction; Monte Carlo; shape transformations; phase transitions; 11.25.-w; 64.60.-i; 68.60.-p; 87.10.-e; 87.15.ak (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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