Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes

Abstract

We provide the first numerical evidence for the existence of a tubular phase, predicted by Radzihovsky and Toner (RT), for anisotropic tethered membranes without self-avoidance. Incorporating anisotropy into the bending rigidity of a simple model of a tethered membrane with free boundary conditions, we show that the model indeed has two phase transitions corresponding to the flat-to-tubular and tubular-to-crumpled transitions. For the tubular phase we measure the Flory exponent ${\nu }_F$ and the roughness exponent $\zeta$. We find ${\nu }_F=0.305(14)$ and $\zeta =0.895(60)$, which are in reasonable agreement with the theoretical predictions of RT --- ${\nu }_F=1/4$ and $\zeta =1$.

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