Pinned capillary-wave correlation

ID: pinned-capillary-wave-correlation

Adding positive quadratic confinement to the membrane energy changes its height spectrum to . The continuous height-shift symmetry is explicitly broken. Connected correlation function decay on the finite length and the height-difference variance saturates for every internal dimension, although its saturation value can depend on a microscopic cutoff. A negative confinement coefficient gives an unstable quadratic model rather than pinning.

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