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Elasticity, Shape Fluctuations and Phase Transitions in the New Tubule Phase of Anisotropic Tethered Membranes
Leo Radzihovsky, John Toner
We study the shape, elasticity and fluctuations of the recently predicted (cond-mat/9510172) and subsequently observed (in numerical simulations) (cond-mat/9705059) tubule phase of…
Nonequilibrium Steady States of Driven Periodic Media
Leon Balents, M. Cristina Marchetti, Leo Radzihovsky
We study a periodic medium driven over a random or periodic substrate. Our work is based on nonequilibrium continuum hydrodynamic equations of motion, which we derive microscopical…
Nematic--to--Smectic-A Transition in Aerogel
Leo Radzihovsky, John Toner
We study a model for the Nematic--Smectic-A (NA) transition in aerogel, and find that even arbitrarily weak quenched disorder (i.e., low aerogel density) destroys translational (sm…
Dirt Softens Soap: Anomalous Elasticity of Disordered Smectics
Leo Radzihovsky, John Toner
We show that a smectic in a disordered medium (e.g., aerogel) exhibits anomalous elasticity, with the compression modulus B(k) vanishing and the bend modulus K(k) diverging as k --…