Mean area of selfavoiding loops

Jan 18, 1994
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 72 (1994) 1580-1583
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Report number:
  • OUTP-93-34S,
  • OUTP-93-??S

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Abstract: (APS)
The mean area of two-dimensional unpressurized vesicles, or self-avoiding loops of fixed length N, behaves for large N as A0N3/2, while their mean square radius of gyration behaves as R02N3/2. The amplitude ratio A0/R02 is computed exactly and found to equal 4π/5. The physics of the pressurized case, in both the inflated and collapsed phases, may be usefully related to that of a complex O(n) field theory coupled to a U(1) gauge field, in the limit n→0.
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