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Layer-by-layer Synthesis and Transfer of Freestanding Conjugated Microporous Polymer Nanomembranes
Published on: December 15, 2015
Three-loop order approach to flat polymerized membranes
S Metayer1, D Mouhanna2, S Teber1
1Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, LPTHE, 75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
We derive the three-loop order renormalization group equations that describe the flat phase of polymerized membranes within the modified minimal subtraction scheme, following the pioneering one-loop order computation of Aronovitz and Lubensky [Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 2634 (1988)10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.2634] and the recent two-loop order one of Coquand, Mouhanna, and Teber [Phys. Rev. E 101, 062104 (2020)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.101.062104]. We analyze the fixed points of these equations and compute the associated field anomalous dimension η at three-loop order. Our results display a marked proximity with those obtained using nonperturbative techniques and reexpanded in powers of ε=4-D. Moreover, the three-loop order value that we get for η at the stable fixed point, η=0.8872, in D=2, is compatible with known theoretical results and within the range of accepted numerical values.
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