Publications [#245718] of Shailesh Chandrasekharan

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  1. Chandrasekharan, S; Strouthos, C, KOSTERLITZ-THOULESS UNIVERSALITY IN DIMER MODELS, Physical Reviews D (Rapid Communications) arXiv:hep-lat/0306034, vol. 68 no. 9 (2003), pp. 091502, American Physical Society (APS) [doi] .

    Abstract:
    Using the monomer-dimer representation of strongly coupled U(N) lattice gauge theories with staggered fermions, we study finite temperature chiral phase transitions in 2+1 dimensions. A new cluster algorithm allows us to compute monomer-monomer and dimer-dimer correlations at zero monomer density (chiral limit) accurately on large lattices. This makes it possible to show convincingly, for the first time, that these models undergo a finite temperature phase transition which belongs to the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class. We find that the phase transition persists for all values of N, but occurs at different values of the critical temperature Tc. Further, when T /Tc is held fixed, the mean field analysis often used in the large N limit breaks down. © The American Physical Society.

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