Polymerized Membranes with Quenched Random Internal Disorder
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 16 (1) , 79-84
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/16/1/014
Abstract
We study polymerized membranes with quenched random internal disorder, caused by impurity-induced fluctuations in the preferred metric. Although the flat phase characteristic of pure systems persists when the disorder is weak, membranes are destabilized by a disorder-induced softening of the bending rigidity at zero temperature. Our calculations are consistent with a re-entrant phase transition and glassy behavior at low temperatures.Keywords
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