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Planar Superconductivity via Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Condensed Matter

Abstract

The phase structure of a (2+1)(2+1) - dimensional model of relativistic fermions with a four fermi interaction is analyzed in the strong coupling regime using the large NN perturbation theory. It is shown that, this model exhibits a low temperature superconducting phase due to the vortex-anti vortex binding via Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism. Above a critical temperature, vortices unbind and superconductivity is destroyed; at a still higher temperature the vacuum expectation value of a neutral order parameter vanishes. The ground state respects parity and time reversal symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512072,
  title  = {Planar Superconductivity via Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism},
  author = {R. MacKenzie and P. K. Panigrahi and S. Sakhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512072},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, Revtex

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