Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes
Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes
We provide the first numerical evidence for the existence of a tubular phase, predicted by Radzihovsky and Toner (RT), for anisotropic tethered membranes without self-avoidance. Incorporating anisotropy into the bending rigidity of a simple model of a tethered membrane with free boundary conditions, we show that the model indeed has …