Study of the kinetics of domain structures in thin ferromagnetic films by the Wang-Landau method

The features of a phase transition between the strict striped domain structure in thin ferromagnetic films with transverse anisotropy and the so-called tetragonal phase, where domains can be twisted and broken into parts, have been analyzed. It has been shown that the phase transition should be thermodynamically treated as a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, where ends of domains serve as vortices. It has been demonstrated with the Wang-Landau numerical algorithm that the kinetics of this phase transition is strongly slowed down owing to the existence of a large number of metastable states; in this property, the system is partially similar to spin glasses.     

Hydrogen and helium films as model systems of wetting

Optical experiments on the wetting properties of liquid ⁴He and molecular hydrogen are reviewed. Hydrogen films on noble metal surfaces serve as model systems for studying triple point wetting, a continuous transition between wetting and non-wetting. By means of optically excited surface plasmons, the adsorbed film thickness for temperatures around, and far below, the bulk melting temperature is measured, and the physical mechanisms responsible for the transition are elucidated. Possible applications for other experiments in pure and applied research are discussed. Thin films and droplets of liquid helium are studied on cesium surfaces, on which there is a first order wetting transition. Our studies concentrate on dynamical observations via surface plasmon microscopy, which provide insight into the morphology of liquid helium droplets spreading at different temperatures. Features corresponding to pinning forces, the prewetting line, and the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition are clearly observed.     

Electric-field-effect modulation of the transition temperature, mobile carrier density, and in-plane penetration depth of NdBa2Cu3O7-delta thin films

We explore the relationship between the critical temperature T(c), the mobile areal carrier density n(2D), and the zero-temperature magnetic in-plane penetration depth lambda(ab)(0) in very thin underdoped NdBa(2)Cu(3)O(7-delta) films near the superconductor to insulator transition using the electric-field-effect technique. Having established consistency with a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, we observe that T(KT) depends linearly on n(2D), the signature of a quantum superconductor to insulator transition in two dimensions with znu(over)=1, where z is the dynamic and nu is the critical exponent of the in-plane correlation length.     

Series Analysis of a Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition: The 6-State Planar Potts Model

A new implementation of the Finite Lattice Method of series expansion is used to derive low temperature series for the 6-state planar Potts model. This is expected to have Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions between the ordered low-temperature phase and a massless phase, and between the massless phase and a high-temperature disordered phase. In an exploratory study, we have analysed series for the order parameter to order x ⁵⁹. These series have proved particularly difficult to analyse and when seeking to both locate the transition and confirm the form of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, considerable ambiguity is found. If however the form of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is assumed, then the series analysis consistently indicates that the lower transition occurs at x _L=0.4886(10). A more conservative analysis, which made no assumption about the nature of the transition, led to the estimate x _L=0.485(8).     

On the type of a phase transition in the system of exciton polaritons in an optical microcavity

The type of a phase transition in the quasi-equilibrium system of exciton polaritons in a two-dimensional optical microcavity has been analyzed. It has been shown that, although the system contains two types of bosons undergoing mutual transformations into each other, only one phase transition to the superfluid state with the quasilong-range order occurs in the two-dimensional system. This phase transition is a Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition. A new physical implementation—excitons in a photon crystal—has been proposed for the Bose condensation of exciton polaritons. The superfluid properties of the ordered phase are discussed, and the superfluid density and Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature have been calculated in the low-density approximation.     

YBCO颗粒膜的非平衡微波响应与Koterlitz-Thouless相变

报道了Yba₂Cu₃O_7-δ(YBCO)颗粒膜的微波辐射(λ＝8mm)响应的特征.实验结果表明：YBCO颗粒膜的微波响应行为不能用辐射热效应来描述,而应当属于非平衡响应行为.在超导转变温度T_∞以下温区,非平衡微波响应信号电平随样品电阻R趋于零而消失,并且对弱的外磁场十分灵敏.在对样品的直流I-V特性进行了仔细测量后发现,样品的电输运行为具有准二维结构特征,可以用Kosterlitz-Thouless(K-T)相变模型加以描述.在此基础上,分析结果表明:YBCO颗粒膜中的非平衡微波响应机制可能与磁通“涡旋-反涡旋”束缚对的激发态有关. 关键词：     

Analytic solution of the renormalization equations of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

The Kosterlitz-Thouless renormalization equations are shown to have an analytic solution, for the whole range of their validity. The solution enables us to express one of the previously unknown parameters used for flux-flow resistance in thin film superconductors, in term of the parameters of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition.     

Loss of superconducting phase coherence in YBa(2)Cu(3)O(7) films: vortex-loop unbinding and Kosterlitz-Thouless phenomena

The linear conductance G' + iG(") parallel to the CuO(2) planes of flat d = 50-600 nm thin films is measured between 30 mHz and 800 kHz. The decay of the phase-coherent superfluid density signals the proliferation of 3D vortex loops which terminates at T*相似文献   

Possibility of Kosterlitz-Thouless effect at the resistive transition of high Tc oxide superconductors

The intrinsic resistive transition of an oxide superconductor is found to follow the relation of a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of binding-unbinding of vortex pairs.     

Phase transition and critical dynamics in site-diluted Josephson-junction arrays

Measurements of the IV characteristics of site-diluted Josephson-junction arrays have revealed intriguing effects of percolative disorder on the phase transition and the vortex dynamics in a two-dimensional XY system. Different from other types of phase transitions, the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition was eliminated with the introduction of percolative disorder far below the percolation threshold. Even after the Kosterlitz-Thouless order had been removed, the system remained superconducting at low temperatures by establishing a different type of order. Near the percolation threshold, evidence was found that, as a consequence of the underlying fractal structure, the critical dynamics of the phase degrees of freedom persisted down to zero temperature.     

Monte carlo simulations of the two-dimensional two-component plasma on a line

We study by means of Monte Carlo simulations the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition for the two-dimensional, two-component plasma confined on a line.     

Evidence for Kosterlitz-Thouless behavior in the disordered and frustrated two-dimensionalXY-model

We present Monte-Carlo results providing strong evidence for a non-universal Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the disordered and frustrated two-dimensionalXY-model for various magnetic fields, giving rise to frustration.     

Potential signature of a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in BaNi2V2O8

ESR measurements are reported for the quasi-two-dimensional honeycomb antiferromagnet BaNi2V2O8. Planar anisotropic properties are confirmed by angular dependent investigations of resonance field and linewidth. The divergence of the temperature-dependent linewidth on approaching T(N) from above is described in terms of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, the critical behavior close to long-range magnetic order, and the 2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet. We provide arguments that the Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario is compatible with the observed critical exponent and suggest BaNi2V2O8 is a weakly anisotropic 2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet.     

Two-dimensional ising models with competing interaction—a Monte Carlo study

Two-dimensional Ising models on a square lattice with competing interactions along one axis or both axes are studied primarily by the Monte Carlo method. Several commensurate-incommensurate transitions are found. Dislocation-like configurations are identified near the sinusoidal — paramagnetic transition in accordance with the idea that the transition might be of Kosterlitz-Thouless, XY-like character.     

Phase transition in the generalized Ising-Kosterlitz-Thouless model

The features of the phase transition are considered in a model that is a combination of the Ising and Kosterlitz-Thouless models. It is shown that one or two successive phase transitions may occur in such a system, depending on the relation between parameters. An asymptotic formula is derived for the Ising-type phase transition temperature.     

Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in microcavity polariton system

The Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in a system of exciton-polaritons in a microcavity is studied. The transition temperature to superfluid state was found as a function of exciton-photon detuning. A nonquadratic dispersion law was taken into account in the framework of the self-consistent harmonic approximation (SCHA). The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Transition from a two-dimensional superfluid to a one-dimensional Mott insulator

A two-dimensional system of atoms in an anisotropic optical lattice is studied theoretically. If the system is finite in one direction, it is shown to exhibit a transition between a two-dimensional superfluid and a one-dimensional Mott insulating chain of superfluid tubes. Monte Carlo simulations are consistent with the expectation that the phase transition is of Kosterlitz-Thouless type. The effect of the transition on experimental time-of-flight images is discussed.     

Phase transition in a system of one-dimensional bosons with strong disorder

We study one-dimensional disordered bosons at large commensurate filling. Using a real space renormalization group approach, we find a new random fixed point which controls a phase transition from a superfluid to an incompressible Mott glass. The transition can be tuned by changing the disorder distribution even with vanishing interactions. We derive the properties of the transition, which suggest that it is in the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.     

Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition Line for the Two Dimensional Coulomb Gas

With a renormalization group approach, we study the pressure of the two dimensional Coulomb Gas along a small piece of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition line, i.e. the boundary of the dipole region in the activity-temperature phase-space.