Smoothening Transition of Rough Surfactant Surfaces

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dc.creatorDiamantini, M. C.
dc.creatorKleinert, H.
dc.creatorTrugenberger, C. A.
dc.date1998-06-05
dc.date1998-07-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:10:46Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:10:46Z
dc.descriptionWe propose a model for surfaces in mixtures of oil, water and surfactants with strong electric dipoles. The dipole interactions give rise to a non-local interaction with negative stiffness between surface elements. We show that, for large space dimension D, this model has a phase transition from rough to smooth surfaces. Contrary to models with a simple quadratic curvature energy of positive sign, which always have a finite persistence length typical of rough surfaces, the smooth surfaces in our model exhibit long-range correlations of a generalized antiferromagnetic type. These correlations might be related to the recently observed "egg carton" superstructure of membranes.
dc.description11 pages, 1 figure, harvmac, minor corrections
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9806077
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9806077
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/28332
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleSmoothening Transition of Rough Surfactant Surfaces
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