Thermal properties of gauge-fields common to anyon superconductors and spin-liquids
Abstract
The thermally driven confinement-deconfinement transition exhibited by lattice quantum electrodynamics in two space dimensions is re-examined in the context of the statistical gauge-fields common to anyon superconductors and to spin-liquids. Particle-hole excitations in both systems are bound by a confining string at temperatures below the transition temperature Tc. We argue that Tc coincides with the actual critical temperature for anyon superconductivity. The corresponding specific-heat contribution, however, shows a smooth peak just below Tc characteristic of certain high-temperature superconductors.
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