Probing Vortex Unbinding via Dipole Fluctuations

Details Probing Vortex Unbinding via Dipole Fluctuations Probing Vortex Unbinding via Dipole Fluctuations

2002-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208417v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.66.201402

We develop a numerical method for detecting a vortex unbinding transition in a two-dimensional system by measuring large scale fluctuations in the total vortex dipole moment ${\vec P}$ of the system. These are characterized by a quantity $\cal F$ which measures the number of configurations in a simulation for which the either $P_x$ or $P_y$ is half the system size. It is shown that $\cal F$ tends to a non-vanishing constant for large system sizes in the unbound phase, and vanishes in the bound phase. The method is applied to the XY model both in the absence and presence of a magnetic field. In the latter case, the system size dependence of $\cal F$ suggests that there exist three distinct phases, one unbound vortex phase, a logarithmically bound phase, and a linearly bound phase.

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