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Monte Carlo study of self-avoiding surfaces

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Two models of self-avoiding surfaces on the cubic lattice are studied by Monte Carlo simulations. Both the first model with fluctuating boundary and the second one with a fixed boundary are found to belong to the universality class of branched polymers. The algorithms as well as the methods used to extract the critical exponents are described in detail. The results are compared to other recent estimates in the literature.

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Glaus, U. Monte Carlo study of self-avoiding surfaces. J Stat Phys 50, 1141–1166 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019158

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