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Defects in Superfluids, Superconductors and Membranes | | David R. Nelson
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16 Feb 1995 | | Subject: | cond-mat | | Affiliation: | Harvard University | | Abstract: | An introduction to the defects which dominate the physics of superfluid He$^4$ films, of superconducting slabs and of crystalline and hexatic membranes is given. We first review point vortices in two-dimensional neutral superfluids and discuss the unusual screening which arises when the bosons are charged, as in superconducting films. Dislocation and disclination defects in crystalline membranes are discussed from a similar point of view. There is little or no screening in ``monolayer’’ crystals, which are strongly constrained to lie in a flat two-dimensional plane. A strong nonlinear screening effect arises, however, in 2d membranes allowed to buckle into the third dimension. This screening drastically lowers dislocation and disclination energies, and forces crystalline membranes to melt at any finite temperature. We point out that buckled 5- and 7-fold disclinations in hexatic membranes have in general different logarithmically divergent energies. A similar asymmetry exists in the energies of 5- and 7-fold defects in {it liquid} membranes. This difference determines the sign of the Gaussian bending rigidity, and has important consequences in membranes which can change their topology or with free boundary conditions. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/9502114 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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