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S E Korshunov

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Uniformly frustrated XY model without a vortex-pattern ordering.

The uniformly frustrated XY model with f=1/3 on a dice lattice is shown to possess an accidental degeneracy of its ground states so well developed that the difference between the free energies of fluctuations does not lead to the stabilization of a particular vortex pattern down to zero temperature. Nonetheless, at low temperatures the system is characterized by a finite helicity modulus whose vanishing (at a finite temperature) is related to the dissociation of half-vortex pairs.

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Fluctuations and vortex-pattern ordering in the fully frustrated XY model on a honeycomb lattice.

The accidental degeneracy of various ground states of a fully frustrated XY model with a honeycomb lattice is shown to survive even when the free energy of the harmonic fluctuations is taken into account. The reason for that consists in the existence of a hidden gauge symmetry between the Hamiltonians describing the harmonic fluctuations in all these ground states. A particular vortex pattern is selected only when anharmonic fluctuations are taken into account. However, the observation of vortex ordering requires relatively large system size L>>Lc > or approximately equal to 10(5).

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Kink pairs unbinding on domain walls and the sequence of phase transitions in fully frustrated XY models.

The unbinding of kink pairs on domain walls in the fully frustrated XY model (on square or triangular lattices) is shown to induce the vanishing of phase coupling across the walls. This forces the phase transition, associated with unbinding of vortex pairs, to take place at a lower temperature than the other phase transition, associated with proliferation of the Ising-type domain walls. The results are applicable for a description of superconducting junction arrays and wire networks in a perpendicular magnetic field, as well as of planar antiferromagnets with a triangular lattice.

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Collective pinning of a frozen vortex liquid in ultrathin superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 films.

The linear dynamic response of the two-dimensional (2D) vortex medium in ultrathin YBa2Cu3O7 films was studied by measuring their ac sheet impedance Z over a broad range of frequencies omega. With decreasing temperature the dissipative component of Z exhibits, at a temperature T*(omega) well above the melting temperature of a 2D vortex crystal, a crossover from a thermally activated regime involving single vortices to a regime where the response has features consistent with a description in terms of a collectively pinned vortex manifold. This suggests the idea of a vortex liquid which, below T*(omega), appears to be frozen at the time scales 1/omega of the experiments.

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