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The single vortex problem in a strongly correlated bosonic system is investigated self-consistently within the mean-field theory of the Bose-Hubbard model. Near the superfluid-Mott transition, the vortex core has a tendency toward the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Congjun Wu , Han-dong Chen , Jiang-ping Hu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Inspired by the stable bilayer water ice grown in the laboratory (Nature 577, 60, 2020), we propose a model representing water ice as a two-layer six-vertex model. Using the loop update Monte Carlo method, we unveil meaningful findings.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-21 Telun Zhong , Heyang Ma , Peijun Zheng , Jie Zhang , Wanzhou Zhang

We report results for a 3D simulation of a layered superconductor. There are two significant temperatures. The first corresponds to melting of the vortex lattice in the a-b plane (T_ab) and the second to decoupling of the layers (T_dc) with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 N. K. Wilkin , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Vortices in a type-II superconductor form a lattice structure that melts when the thermal displacement of the vortices is an appreciable fraction of the distance between vortices. In an anisotropic high-Tc superconductor, such as YBa2Cu3Oy,…

Vortices in superconductors can help identify emergent phenomena but certain fundamental aspects of vortices, such as their entropy, remain poorly understood. Here, we study the vortex entropy in underdoped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-10 Shuxu Hu , Jiabin Qiao , Genda Gu , Qi-Kun Xue , Ding Zhang

We use the three dimensional uniformly frustrated XY model, as a model for a high temperature superconductor in an applied magnetic field, to explicitly measure the longitudinal correlation length xi_z in the vortex line liquid phase. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Peter Olsson , S. Teitel

Using large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of lattice bosonic models, we precisely investigate the effect of weak Josephson tunneling between 2D superfluid or superconducting layers. In the clean case, the Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-05 Nicolas Laflorencie

A phase transition for bosonic atoms in a two-dimensional anisotropic optical lattice is considered. If the tunnelling rates in two directions are different, the system can undergo a transition between a two-dimensional superfluid and a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Magnus Rehn , Sara Bergkvist , Anders Rosengren , Robert Saers , Martin Zelán , Emil Lundh , Anders Kastberg

We present a theory of vortex liquid-to-solid transition in homogeneous quasi 2D superconductors. The free energy is written as a functional l of density of zeroes of the fluctuating order parameter. The transition is weakly first-order and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Igor Herbut , Zlatko Tesanovic

We use Monte Carlo simulations of the 3D uniformly frustrated XY model, with uncorrelated quenched randomness in the in-plane couplings, to model the effect of random point pins on the vortex line phases of a type II superconductor. We map…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Olsson , S. Teitel

A lattice boson model is used to study ordering phenomena in regular 2D array of superconductive mesoscopic granules, Josephson junctions or pores filled with a superfluid helium. Phase diagram of the system, when quantum fluctuations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Belousov , S. A. Verzakov , Yu. E. Lozovik

Phase transition between the vortex glass and the Bragg glass phases in high-$T_{\rm c}$ superconductors in $\vec{B}\parallel\vec{c}$ is studied by Monte Carlo simulations in the presence of point pins. A finite latent heat and a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshihiko Nonomura , Xiao Hu

Using path integral Monte Carlo we simulate a 3D system of up to 1000 magnetic flux lines by mapping it onto a system of interacting bosons in (2+1)D. With increasing temperature we find a first order melting of flux lines from an ordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Prasenjit Sen , Nandini Trivedi , D. M. Ceperley

The formation of a regular lattice of quantized vortices in a fluid under rotation is a smoking-gun signature of its superfluid nature. Here we study the vortex lattice in a dilute superfluid gas of bosonic atoms at zero temperature along…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-13 S. K. Adhikari , L. Salasnich

We propose a phase diagram for the vortex structure of high temperature superconductors which incorporates the effects of anisotropy and disorder. It is based on numerical simulations using the three-dimensional Josephson junction array…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. A. Jagla , C. A. Balseiro

The study focuses on the 3D electro-hydrodynamic (EHD) instability for flow between to parallel electrodes with unipolar charge injection with and without cross-flow. Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) with two-relaxation time (TRT) model is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-11 Yifei Guan , James Riley , Igor Novosselov

We investigate the zero-temperature phase diagram of interacting Bose gases in the presence of a simple cubic optical lattice, going beyond the regime where the mapping to the single-band Bose-Hubbard model is reliable. Our computational…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-30 S. Pilati , M. Troyer

A two-dimensional system of atoms in an anisotropic optical lattice is studied theoretically. If the system is finite in one direction, it is shown to exhibit a transition between a two-dimensional superfluid and a one-dimensional Mott…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Sara Bergkvist , Robert Saers , Emil Lundh , Anders Rosengren , Magnus Rehn , Anders Kastberg

The melting of the Abrikosov vortex lattice in a 2D type-II superconductor at high magnetic fields is studied analytically within the framework of the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory. It is shown that local phase fluctuations in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 V. Zhuravlev , T. Maniv

The distribution of thermally excited vortex loops near a superfluid phase transition is calculated from a renormalized theory. The number density of loops with a given perimeter is found to change from exponential decay with increasing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gary A. Williams