Emergent photons and transitions in the O(3) sigma model with hedgehog suppression

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Motrunich, Olexei I ^a   Vishwanath, Ashvin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC MODEL; HEDGEHOG; IONIZATION; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 19544387413     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.075104     Document Type: Article

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