Floppy Membranes

M. C. Diamantini; H. Kleinert; C. Trugenberger

DOI:10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00170-5

Corpus ID: 119404850

Floppy Membranes

@inproceedings{Diamantini1999FloppyM,
  title={Floppy Membranes},
  author={M. C. Diamantini and H. Kleinert and C. Trugenberger},
  year={1999}
}

M. C. Diamantini, H. Kleinert, C. Trugenberger

Published 1999

Physics

Floppy membranes are tensionless surfaces without extrinsic stiffness whose fluctuations are governed by fourth-order bending elasticity. This suppresses spiky superstructures and ensures that floppy membranes remain smooth over any distance, with Hausdorff dimension D s2, in contrast to surfaces with stiffness which are rough on the scale of some finite H persistence length. q 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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