Abstract
Anisotropic -dimensional polymerized phantom membranes are investigated within a nonperturbative renormalization group framework. One focuses on the transition between a high-temperature, crumpled phase and a low-temperature, tubular phase where the membrane is flat along one direction and crumpled along the other ones. While the upper critical dimension——is close to , the weak-coupling perturbative approach is qualitatively and quantitatively wrong. We show that our approach is free of the problems encountered within the perturbative framework and provides physically meaningful critical quantities.
- Received 29 November 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.128102
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