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- Title
Nearly spherical vesicles: Shape fluctuations.
- Authors
Kats, E. I.; Lebedev, V. V.; Muratov, A. R.
- Abstract
Isolated vesicles with ‘‘insufficient’’ area have a finite surface tension and spherical shapes, whereas vesicles with ‘‘excess’’ area are necessarily aspherical. We consider the crossover behavior between both kinds of vesicles occurring as the equilibrium area increases. In the mean field approximation it is a second-order phase transition from the spherical to aspherical shape. We demonstrate the fluctuations smear the transition. The critical behavior of the amplitudes of fluctuations and of their characteristic times is investigated. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
- Subjects
DROPLETS; SPHEROIDAL state; GEOMETRIC shapes
- Publication
JETP Letters, 1996, Vol 63, Issue 3, p216
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.566993