Electromagnetic Coulomb gas with vector charges and ``elastic potentials: Renormalization group equations

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2007.10.019MaRDI QIDQ952279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Carpentier, Pierre Le Doussal

Publication date 12 November 2008

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2667

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsCoulomb gasmeltingpinning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

Abstract: We present a detailed derivation of the renormalization group equations for two dimensional electromagnetic Coulomb gases whose charges lie on a triangular lattice (magnetic charges) and its dual (electric charges). The interactions between the charges involve both angular couplings and a new electromagnetic potential. This motivates the denomination of ``elastic Coulomb gas. Such elastic Coulomb gases arise naturally in the study of the continuous melting transition of two dimensional solids coupled to a substrate, either commensurate or with quenched disorder.

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