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arXiv:cond-mat/0508576 · Physical Review Letters

Competitive Localization of Vortex Lines and Interacting Bosons

Jan Kierfeld, V. M. Vinokur

Published Feb 25, 2005• 7 citations
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Abstract

We present a theory for the localization of three-dimensional vortex lines or two-dimensional bosons with a short-ranged repulsive interaction which are competing for a single columnar defect or potential well. For two vortices we use a necklace model approach to find a new kind of delocalization transition between two different states with a single bound particle. This exchange-delocalization transition is characterized by the onset of vortex exchange on the defect for sufficiently weak vortex-vortex repulsion or sufficiently weak binding energy corresponding to high temperature. We calculate the transition point and order of the exchange-delocalization transition. A generalization of this transition to an arbitrary vortex number is proposed.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.94.077005

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