{
  "id": "cond-mat/0411209",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2004-11-09T02:49:02.000Z",
  "updated": "2004-11-09T02:49:02.000Z",
  "title": "First-order phase transition of fixed connectivity surfaces",
  "authors": [
    "Hiroshi Koibuchi",
    "Nobuyuki Kusano",
    "Atsusi Nidaira",
    "Komei Suzuki",
    "Mitsuru Yamada"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages with 7 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 69, 066139 (2004)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.69.066139",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "We report a numerical evidence of the discontinuous transition of a tethered membrane model which is defined within a framework of the membrane elasticity of Helfrich. Two kinds of phantom tethered membrane models are studied via the canonical Monte Carlo simulation on triangulated fixed connectivity surfaces of spherical topology. A surface model is defined by the Gaussian term and the bending energy term, and the other, which is tensionless, is defined by the bending energy term and a hard wall potential. The bending energy is defined by using the normal vector at each vertex. Both of the models undergo the first-order phase transition characterized by a gap of the bending energy. The phase structure of the models depends on the choice of discrete bending energy.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2004-11-09T02:49:02.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "first-order phase transition",
      "fixed connectivity surfaces",
      "bending energy term",
      "hard wall potential",
      "canonical monte carlo simulation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. E"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}