Elasticity and Disorders in Two Interacting Planar Vortex Arrays
Abstract
The competition between elasticity and disorders is investigated in a system of two coupled planar flux line arrays. The model can be analyzed systematically using the renormalization group method. Three phases are found: (i) an elastically coupled vortex glass, (ii) a decoupled amorphous vortex glass, and (iii) a decoupled line liquid. A detailed phase diagram is presented, along with the fixed points and critical exponents describing the phase transitions.
- Publication:
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APS March Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- March 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996APS..MAR.N1003K