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Thermal properties of gauge-fields common to anyon superconductors and spin-liquids

J. P. Rodriguez

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9410068

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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