Fluctuation pressure of a stack of membranes
- 12 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (2) , 144-147
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.144
Abstract
We show by Monte Carlo simulation that the fluctuations in a stack of membranes with spacing d produce a pressure p=(0.148±0.006)/κ, where T is the temperature (in units of ) and κ is the curvature elastic modulus.
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