Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 38, Number 1, April 1997
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Page(s) | 7 - 12 | |
Section | Cross-disciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00525-0 | |
Published online | 01 December 2003 |
The Poisson ratio of crystalline surfaces
1
Department of Physics, Syracuse University - Syracuse, NY 13244-1130, USA
2
CEA-Saclay, Service de Physique Théorique - F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
3
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld - D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
Received:
10
October
1996
Accepted:
22
February
1997
A remarkable theoretical prediction for a crystalline (polymerized) surface is that its Poisson ratio is negative. Using a large-scale Monte Carlo simulation of a simple model of such surfaces we show that this is indeed true. The precise numerical value we find is on a lattice at bending rigidity . This is in excellent agreement with the prediction following from the self-consistent screening approximation of Le Doussal and Radzihovsky.
PACS: 82.65.Dp – Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces / 64.60.-i – General studies of phase transitions / 87.22.-q – Physics of cellular and physiological processes
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