1997/10/07 by Colin Denniston, Chao Tang, Denniston, Colin +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum many-body systems #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9710060
5 pages, 3 figures, RevTex
arxiv created 1997/10/07 · openalex publication_date 1997/10/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
To examine the properties of the frustrated XY model at an incommensurate field we have examined a sequence of magnetic filling factors f which approach the irrational value of one minus the golden mean. At all f studied, the system undergoes a finite-temperature weak first-order transition involving the freezing out of Ising-like domain walls. As one approaches incommensurability, the low temperature phase of the system changes from the staircase states found by Halsey to a striped phase consisting of a superlattice of parallel shift (Pott's-like) domain walls.