Continuous thermal melting of a two-dimensional Abrikosov vortex solid
Superconductivity
2013-05-29 v2
Abstract
We examine the question of thermal melting of the triangular Abrikosov vortex solid in two-dimensional superconductors or neutral superfluids. We introduce a model, which combines lowest Landau level (LLL) projection with the magnetic Wannier basis to represent degenerate eigenstates in the LLL. Solving the model numerically via large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, we find clear evidence for a continuous melting transition, in perfect agreement with the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young theory and with recent experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1009.0263,
title = {Continuous thermal melting of a two-dimensional Abrikosov vortex solid},
author = {J. Iaconis and R. G. Melko and A. A. Burkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0263},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures; published version