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arxiv: cond-mat/0005084 · v1 · submitted 2000-05-04 · ❄️ cond-mat

Phases of a Stack of Membranes at Large-d

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The phase diagram of a stack of tensionless membranes with nonlinear curvature energy and vertical harmonic interaction is calculated exactly in a large number of dimensions of configuration space. At low temperatures, the system forms a lamellar phase with spontaneously broken translational symmetry in the vertical direction. At a critical temperature, the stack disorders vertically in a melting-like transition. The critical temperature is determined as a function of the interlayer separation l.

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