Crumpled-to-Tubule Transition in Anisotropic Polymerized Membranes: Beyond the ε Expansion

Anisotropic D-dimensional polymerized phantom membranes are investigated within a nonperturbative renormalization group framework. One focuses on the transition between a high-temperature, crumpled phase and a low-temperature, tubular phase where the membrane is flat along one direction and crumpled along the other ones. While the upper critical dimension--Duc=5/2--is close to D=2, the weak-coupling perturbative approach is qualitatively and quantitatively wrong. We show that our approach is free of the problems encountered within the perturbative framework and provides physically meaningful critical quantities.