Surface properties at the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(02)01167-2zbMATH Open0998.82011arXivcond-mat/0208522MaRDI QIDQ699177FDOQ699177

Authors: Bertrand Berche 

Publication date: 6 October 2002

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Monte Carlo simulations of the two-dimensional XY model are performed in a square geometry with free and mixed fixed-free boundary conditions. Using a Schwarz-Christoffel conformal mapping, we deduce the exponent eta of the order parameter correlation function and its surface equivalent eta_parallel at the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature. The well known value eta(T_{KT}) = 1/4 is easily recovered even with systems of relatively small sizes, since the shape effects are encoded in the conformal mapping. The exponent associated to the surface correlations is similarly obtained eta_1(T_{KT}) ~= 0.54.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208522

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zbMATH Keywords

Monte-Carlo simulationsboundary conditionstwo-dimensional \(XY\) model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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