MONTE-CARLO SEARCH FOR THE FLUX-LATTICE-MELTING TRANSITION IN 2-DIMENSIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS

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ONEILL, JA
MOORE, MA
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[1] Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.2582
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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A Monte Carlo simulation of the vortices in a two-dimensional type-II superconductor shows that the correlation length, which measures the range over which triangular lattice ordering of the vortices exists, diverges to infinity in the zero-temperature limit, just as predicted by a scaling argument based on phase fluctuations. No evidence is found for the formation of a vortex-lattice phase at a finite temperature.
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