Vortex lines in the three-dimensional XY model with random phase shifts

Details Vortex lines in the three-dimensional XY model with random phase shifts Vortex lines in the three-dimensional XY model with random phase shifts

1996-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9604111v1

Phys. Rev. B 54 (1996) 16024

Physics

Condensed Matter

8 pages RevTeX, 3 eps-figures included

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.54.16024

The stability of the ordered phase of the three-dimensional XY-model with random phase shifts is studied by considering the roughening of a single stretched vortex line due to the disorder. It is shown that the vortex line may be described by a directed polymer Hamiltonian with an effective random potential that is long range correlated. A Flory argument estimates the roughness exponent to $\zeta=3/4$ and the energy fluctuation exponent to $\omega=1/2$, thus fulfilling the scaling relation $\omega=2\zeta-1$. The Schwartz-Edwards method as well as a numerical integration of the corresponding Burger's equation confirm this result. Since $\zeta<1$ the ordered phase of the original XY-model is stable.

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