Possible first-order transition in the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau model induced by thermally fluctuating vortex cores

DOI10.1007/BF02188667zbMATH Open0840.35103arXivcond-mat/9309040MaRDI QIDQ1906362FDOQ1906362

Authors: Dierk Bormann, H. Beck 

Publication date: 12 February 1996

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau model of a neutral superfluid in the vicinity of the vortex unbinding transition. The model is mapped onto an effective interacting vortex gas by a systematic perturbative elimination of all fluctuating degrees of freedom (amplitude {em and} phase of the order parameter field) except the vortex positions. In the Coulomb gas descriptions derived previously in the literature, thermal amplitude fluctuations were neglected altogether. We argue that, if one includes the latter, the vortices still form a two- dimensional Coulomb gas, but the vortex fugacity can be substantially raised. Under the assumption that Minnhagen's generic phase diagram of the two- dimensional Coulomb gas is correct, our results then point to a first order transition rather than a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, provided the Ginzburg-Landau correlation length is large enough in units of a microscopic cutoff length for fluctuations. The experimental relevance of these results is briefly discussed. [Submitted to J. Stat. Phys.]

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9309040

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zbMATH Keywords

fluctuationsvorticesKosterlitz-Thouless transitionGinzburg-Landau model\(XY\) modelsuperconducting filmstwo-dimensional Coulomb gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

Cites Work

• Bose-Einstein Condensation and Liquid Helium

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