Gauge Glass in Two Dimensions

DOI10.1143/PTPS.184.429MaRDI QIDQ3162928zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lei-Han Tang

Publication date 22 October 2010

Published in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3284

zbMATH Keywords

gauge glassMonte Carlorenormalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: The gauge glass model offers an interesting example of a randomly frustrated system with a continuous O(2) symmetry. In two dimensions, the existence of a glass phase at low temperatures has long been disputed among numerical studies. To resolve this controversy, we examine the behavior of vortices whose movement generates phase slips that destroy phase rigidity at large distances. Detailed analytical and numerical studies of the corresponding Coulomb gas problem in a random potential establish that the ground state, with a finite density of vortices, is polarizable with a scale-dependent dielectric susceptibility. Screening by vortex/antivortex pairs of arbitrarily large size is present to eliminate the logarithmic divergence of the Coulomb energy of a single vortex. The observed power-law decay of the Coulomb interaction between vortices with distance in the ground state leads to a power-law divergence of the glass correlation length with temperature $T$. It is argued that free vortices possess a bound excitation energy and a nonzero diffusion constant at any $T>0$.

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