Fluctuation induced vortex pattern and its disordering in the fully frustrated XY model on a dice lattice

Abstract

A highly degenerate family of states [proposed in PRB 63, 134503 (2001)] is proven to really minimize the Hamiltonian of the fully frustrated XY model on a dice lattice. The harmonic fluctuations are shown to be no consequence for the removal of the accidental degeneracy of these states, so a particular vortex pattern can be stabilized only by the anharmonic fluctuations. The structure of this pattern is found and the temperature of its disordering due to the proliferation of domain walls is estimated. The extreme smallness of the fluctuations induced free energy of domain walls leads to the anomalous prominence of the finite-size effects, which prevent the observation of vortex-pattern ordering in numerical simulations. In such a situation the loss of phase coherence may be related to the dissociation of fractional vortices with topological charges 1/8. In a physical situation the magnetic interaction of currents in a Josephson junction array will be a more important source for the stabilization of a particular vortex pattern than the anharmonic fluctuations.

20 pages, 7 figures

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