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Front Propagation in the Pearling Instability of Tubular Vesicles
R. E. Goldstein, P. Nelson, T. Powers +1
Recently Bar-Ziv and Moses discovered a dynamical shape transformation induced in cylindrical lipid bilayer vesicles by the action of laser tweezers. We develop a hydrodynamic theo…
Dynamic Theory of Pearling Instability in Cylindrical Vesicles
Philip Nelson, Thomas Powers, Udo Seifert
We give a simple theory for recent experiments of Bar-Ziv and Moses% Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf73} (1994) 1392, in which tubular vesicles are excited using laser tweezers to a ``perista…
Measure Factors, Tension, and Correlations of Fluid Membranes
W. Cai, T. C. Lubensky, P. Nelson +1
We study two geometrical factors needed for the correct construction of statistical ensembles of surfaces. Such ensembles appear in the study of fluid bilayer membranes, though our…
Renormalization of Chiral Couplings in Tilted Bilayer Membranes
P. Nelson, T. Powers
We study the effects of chiral constituent molecules on the macroscopic shapes attained by lipid bilayer membranes. Such fluid membranes are beautiful examples of statistical ensem…
Rigid Chiral Membranes
Philip Nelson, Thomas Powers
Statistical ensembles of flexible two-dimensional fluid membranes arise naturally in the description of many physical systems. Typically one encounters such systems in a regime of…