Order-out-of-disorder in a gas of elastic quantum strings in 2+1 dimensions

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7 September 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9909106

Abstract

A limiting case of a dynamical stripe state which is of potential significance to cuprate superconductors is considered: a gas of elastic quantum strings in 2+1 dimensions, interacting merely via a hard-core condition. It is demonstrated that this gas solidifies always, by a mechanism which is the quantum analogue of the entropic interactions known from soft condensed matter physics.

Keywords

ORDER OUT OF DISORDER
QUANTUM STRINGS
SUPERCONDUCTORS
ELASTIC QUANTUM
GAS OF ELASTIC
DIMENSIONS
CONDENSED
STRINGS

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Version 1, 1999-09-07, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 84 (4), 753.

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