Behaviour of topological charges in the phase transitions exhibited by two planar lattice models

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 324, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 337-343

  Mondal, Enakshi ^a   Roy, Soumen Kumar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

61.30.Gd; Phase transition; Topological defects

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POINT DEFECTS;

61.30.GD; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR INTERACTIONS; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SECOND-ORDER PHASE TRANSITION; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; TWO DIMENSIONAL SQUARE LATTICE;

TOPOLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHASE TRANSITION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 1842560243     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2004.02.037     Document Type: Article

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