The Phase Diagram of Fluid Random Surfaces with Extrinsic Curvature

Abstract

We present the results of a large-scale simulation of a Dynamically Triangulated Random Surface with extrinsic curvature embedded in three-dimensional flat space. We measure a variety of local observables and use a finite size scaling analysis to characterize as much as possible the regime of crossover from crumpled to smooth surfaces.

Comments: 29 pages. There are also 19 figures available from the authors but not included here - sorry