The Freezing of Flexible Vesicles of Spherical Topology
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The freezing transition of tensionless fluctuating vesicles is investigated by Monte Carlo siniulations and scaling arguments for a simple tether-and-bead model of fluid membranes. In this model, a freezing transition is induced by reducing the tether length. In the case of planar membranes (with periodic boundary conditions ), the model shows a fiuid~to-crystalline transition at a tether length io 1 (1.53 + 0.01)ao, where ao is the bead diameter. For flexible vesicles with bending rigidities 0.85kBT < ~ < v%kBT, the reduced
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