The Phase Diagram of Crystalline Surfaces

Abstract

We report the status of a high-statistics Monte Carlo simulation of non-self-avoiding crystalline surfaces with extrinsic curvature on lattices of size up to $128^2$ nodes. We impose free boundary conditions. The free energy is a gaussian spring tethering potential together with a normal-normal bending energy. Particular emphasis is given to the behavior of the model in the cold phase where we measure the decay of the normal-normal correlation function.

Comments: 9 pages latex (epsf), 4 EPS figures, uuencoded and compressed. Contribution to Lattice '95