Topological Relaxation of Entangled Flux Lattices: Single versus Collective Line Dynamics
Abstract
A symbolic language allowing one to solve statistical problems for the systems with non-Abelian braidlike topology in 2+1 dimensions is developed. The approach is based on the similarity between a growing braid and a ``heap of colored pieces.'' As an application, the problem of a vortex glass transition in high- Tc superconductors is reexamined on a microscopic level.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.150602
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0010466
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvL..87o0602B
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages (revtex), 4 figures