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Critical Behavior of the Meissner Transition in the Lattice London Superconductor

Peter Olsson, S. Teitel

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9710200

Abstract

We carry out Monte Carlo simulations of the three dimensional (3D) lattice London superconductor in zero applied magnetic field, making a detailed finite size scaling analysis of the Meissner transition. We find that the magnetic penetration length λ, and the correlation length ξ, scale as λ~ ξ~ |t|-ν, with ν= 0.66 0.03, consistent with ordinary 3D XY universality, νXY ~ 2/3. Our results confirm the anomalous scaling dimension of magnetic field correlations at Tc.

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