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Floppy Membranes

M. C. Diamantini, H. Kleinert, C. A. Trugenberger

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9903021

Abstract

Floppy membranes are tensionless surfaces without extrinsic stiffness, whose fluctuations are governed by fourth-order bending elasticity. This suppresses spiky superstructures and ensures that floppy membranes remain smooth over any distance, with Hausdorff dimension D=2, in contrast to surfaces with stiffness, which are rough on the scale of some finite persistence length.

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