Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Surfaces

by Nelson, David R.; Piran, Tsvi; Weinberg, Steven

• ISBN13: 9789812387721
• ISBN10: 9812387722
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-14
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This invaluable book explores the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk lyotropic liquid crystals, chalcogenide glasses and sheet polymers, using tools from the fields of polymer physics, differential geometry, field theory and critical phenomena. Several chapters have been updated relative to the classic 1989 edition. Morever, there are now three entirely new chapters -- on effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity, on fixed connectivity membranes and on triangulated surface models of fluctuating membranes.

Table of Contents

The statistical mechanics of membranes and interfaces	p. 1
Interfaces : fluctuations, interactions and related transitions	p. 19
Equilibrium statistical mechanics of fluctuating films and membranes	p. 49
The physics of microemulsions and amphiphilic monolayers	p. 103
Properties of tethered surfaces	p. 111
Theory of the crumpling transition	p. 131
Geometry and field theory of random surfaces and membranes	p. 149
Statistical mechanics of self-avoiding crumpled manifolds - part I	p. 211
Statistical mechanics of self-avoiding crumpled manifolds - part II	p. 245
Anisotropic and heterogeneous polymerized membranes	p. 275
Fixed-connectivity membranes	p. 323
Triangulated-surface models of fluctuating membranes	p. 359
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