The bending rigidity exponent of a two-dimensional crystalline membrane with arbitrary number of flexural phonon modes

Abstract

We investigate the elastic behavior of two-dimensional crystalline membrane embedded into real space taking into account the presence an arbitrary number of flexural phonon modes $d_c$ (the number of out-of-plane deformation field components). The bending rigidity exponent $\eta$ is extracted by numerical simulation via Fourier Monte Carlo technique of the system behaviour in the universal regime. This universal quantity governess the correlation function of out-of-plane deformations at long wavelengths and defines the behaviour of renormalized bending rigidity at small momentum $\varkappa~\sim~1/q^{\eta}$. The resulting numerical estimates of the exponent for various $d_c$ are compared with the numbers obtained from the approximate analytical techniques.