RT Journal Article
T1 Apparent phase transitions in finite one-dimensional sine-Gordon lattices
A1 Ares, Saúl
A1 Cuesta, José A.
A1 Sánchez, Angel
A1 Toral, Raúl
AB We study the one-dimensional sine-Gordon model as a prototype of roughening phenomena. In spite of thefact that it has been recently proven that this model cannot have any phase transition @J. A. Cuesta and A.Sánchez, J. Phys. A 35, 2373 (2002), Langevin as well as Monte Carlo simulations strongly suggest theexistence of a finite temperature separating a flat from a rough phase. We explain this result by means of thetransfer operator formalism and show as a consequence that sine-Gordon lattices of any practically achievablesize will exhibit this apparent phase transition at unexpectedly large temperatures.
PB American Physical Society
SN 1539-3755 (print version)
SN 1550-2376 (online version)
YR 2003
FD 2003
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/14950
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/14950
LA eng
NO This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología of Spain and FEDER through Grant Nos. BFM2000-0004 (J.A.C.), BFM2000-0006 (S.A. and A.S.), BFM2001- 0341-C02-01, and BFM2000-1108 (R.T.).
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