Title

Weak Point Disorder in Strongly Fluctuating Flux-Line Liquids

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Panayotis Benetatos, Syracuse University
M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

4-8-2005

Keywords

condensed matter, superconductivity, disordered systems and neural networks

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We consider the effect of weak uncorrelated quenched disorder (point defects) on a strongly fluctuating flux-line liquid. We use a hydrodynamic model which is based on mapping the flux-line system onto a quantum liquid of relativistic charged bosons in 2+1 dimensions [P. Benetatos and M. C. Marchetti, Phys. Rev. B 64, 054518, (2001)]. In this model, flux lines are allowed to be arbitrarily curved and can even form closed loops. Point defects can be scalar or polar. In the latter case, the direction of their dipole moments can be random or correlated. Within the Gaussian approximation of our hydrodynamic model, we calculate disorder-induced corrections to the correlation functions of the flux-line fields and the elastic moduli of the flux-line liquid. We find that scalar disorder enhances loop nucleation, and polar (magnetic) defects decrease the tilt modulus.

Additional Information

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for more content look at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504364

Recommended Citation

arXiv:cond-mat/0504364v1

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