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Zero-temperature criticality in the two-dimensional gauge glass model

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

The zero-temperature critical state of the two-dimensional gauge glass model is investigated. It is found that low-energy vortex configurations afford a simple description in terms of gapless, weakly interacting vortex-antivortex pair excitations. A linear dielectric screening calculation is presented in a renormalization group setting that yields a power-law decay of spin-wave stiffness with distance. These properties are in agreement with low-temperature specific heat and spin-glass susceptibility data obtained in large-scale multi-canonical Monte Carlo simulations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0412415,
  title  = {Zero-temperature criticality in the two-dimensional gauge glass model},
  author = {Lei-Han Tang and Peiqing Tong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0412415},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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