Nandori, I.
, Vad, K.
and Meszaros, S.
(2008),
Applicability of Layered Sine-Gordon Models to Layered Superconductors II: Case of Magnetic Coupling, Physical Review Letters
(Accessed December 14, 2024)
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Applicability of Layered Sine-Gordon Models to Layered Superconductors II: Case of Magnetic Coupling
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I Nandori, K Vad, S Meszaros
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We show that the phase structure of layered two-dimensional (2D) sine-Gordon systems, which interact via an interlayer coupling, depends on the number of layers. Specifically, both the extrapolation of the Mass-corrected ultraviolet (UV) scaling laws to the infrared (IR) region as well as the calculation of the effective action consistently indicate the existence of a phase transition of the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) type at a critical temperature which increases monotonically with the number of layers, and this result remains valid under the inclusion of couplings among next-to-nearest neighboring layers. For a comparatively small number of layers, our theoretical result is in agreement with the experimentally observed thickness dependence of the KT transition temperature TKT of layered high-temperature superconducting materials.Citation
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Created October 16, 2008