Phase Structure of Systems of Self-Avoiding Surfaces
- 17 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (24), 2556-2559
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.2556
Abstract
Models of self-avoiding random surfaces with chemical potentials for topological quantities in three and four dimensions are investigated by Monte Carlo methods. We explore the phase diagrams and find first- and second-order transition lines and triple points.Keywords
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