We analyze a system of interacting islands of XY spins on a triangular lattice. This model has been introduced a few years ago by Eley et al. [Nat. Phys. 8, 59 (2012)] to account for the phenomenology in experiments on tunable arrays of proximity coupled long superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions. The main features of the model are the separation of a local and a global interaction energy scale and the mesoscopic character of the spin islands. Upon lowering the temperature the model undergoes two crossovers corresponding to an increasing phase coherence on a single island and to the onset of global coherence across the array; the latter is a thermodynamical phase transition in the Ising universality class. The dependence of the second transition on the island edge-to-edge spacing is related to the proximity-effect of the coupling constant.
A numerical study of planar arrays of correlated spin islands / Maccari, Ilaria; Maiorano, Andrea; Marinari, Vincenzo; Ruiz Lorenzo, Juan Jesus. - In: THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. B, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS. - ISSN 1434-6028. - STAMPA. - 89:5(2016), p. 127. [10.1140/epjb/e2016-70171-x]
A numerical study of planar arrays of correlated spin islands
MACCARI, ILARIA;MAIORANO, Andrea;MARINARI, Vincenzo;
2016
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We analyze a system of interacting islands of XY spins on a triangular lattice. This model has been introduced a few years ago by Eley et al. [Nat. Phys. 8, 59 (2012)] to account for the phenomenology in experiments on tunable arrays of proximity coupled long superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions. The main features of the model are the separation of a local and a global interaction energy scale and the mesoscopic character of the spin islands. Upon lowering the temperature the model undergoes two crossovers corresponding to an increasing phase coherence on a single island and to the onset of global coherence across the array; the latter is a thermodynamical phase transition in the Ising universality class. The dependence of the second transition on the island edge-to-edge spacing is related to the proximity-effect of the coupling constant.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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