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Kink-Antikink Unbinding Transition in the Two Dimensional Fully Frustrated XY Model

Statistical Mechanics 2009-06-05 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We carry out the first numerical simulations to directly confirm the existence of a kink-antikink unbinding transition, T_w, along Ising-like domain walls in the two dimensional fully frustrated XY model. We comment on the possible implications of kink-antikink unbinding for the bulk phase transitions of the model.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0304593,
  title  = {Kink-Antikink Unbinding Transition in the Two Dimensional Fully Frustrated XY Model},
  author = {Peter Olsson and S. Teitel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0304593},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 10 figures - expanded version of original submission as accepted by Phys. Rev. B. Some correction to the analysis lead to an increase in the value of the kink unbinding transition temperature