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Scaling of the superfluid density in superfluid films

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We study scaling of the superfluid density with respect to the film thickness by simulating the xyx-y model on films of size L×L×HL \times L \times H (L>>HL >> H) using the cluster Monte Carlo. While periodic boundary conditions where used in the planar (LL) directions, Dirichlet boundary conditions where used along the film thickness. We find that our results can be scaled on a universal curve by introducing an effective thickness. In the limit of large HH our scaling relations reduce to the conventional scaling forms. Using the same idea we find scaling in the experimental results using the same value of ν=0.6705\nu = 0.6705.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9602085,
  title  = {Scaling of the superfluid density in superfluid films},
  author = {Norbert Schultka and Efstratios Manousakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9602085},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, one postscript file replaced by one Latex file and 5 postscript figures