| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 60, Number 3, November I 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 439 - 445 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00283-5 | |
| Published online | 01 October 2002 | |
A zero-temperature study of vortex mobility in two-dimensional vortex glass models
Department of Physics, Umeå University - 901 87
Umeå, Sweden
Corresponding author: holme@tp.umu.se
Received:
14
January
2002
Accepted:
9
August
2002
Three different vortex glass models are studied by examining the energy barrier against vortex motion across the system. In the two-dimensional gauge glass this energy barrier is found to increase logarithmically with system size which opens up for the existence of a low-temperature phase with zero resistivity. Associated with the large-energy barriers is a breaking of ergodicity which explains why the well-established results from equilibrium studies could fail. The behavior of the more realistic random pinning model is however different with decreasing energy barriers and no finite critical temperature.
PACS: 75.10.Nr – Spin-glass and other random models / 74.60.Ge – Flux pinning, flux creep, and flux-line lattice dynamics / 74.76.Bz – High-
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