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EPL
Volume 99, Number 6, September 2012
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| Article Number | 66001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/99/66001 | |
| Published online | 05 October 2012 | |
Sliding phase in randomly stacked 2d superfluids/superconductors
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université de Toulouse, UPS (IRSAMC) - F-31062 Toulouse, France, EU
Received: 30 May 2012
Accepted: 16 August 2012
Using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of lattice bosonic models, we precisely investigate the effect of weak Josephson tunneling between 2D superfluid or superconducting layers. In the clean case, the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition immediately turns into 3DXY, with phase coherence and superflow in all spatial directions, and a strong enhancement of the critical temperature. However, when disorder is present, rare regions fluctuations can lead to an intermediate finite-temperature phase —the so-called sliding regime— where only 2D superflow occurs within the layers without any transverse superfluid coherence, while a true 3D Bose-Einstein condensate exists. Critical properties of such an unconventional regime are carefully investigated.
PACS: 61.43.Bn – Structural modeling: serial-addition models, computer simulation / 67.25.dj – Superfluid transition and critical phenomena / 74.62.En – Effects of disorder
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