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Bedell, K.S.; Gubernatis, J.E.; Scalettar, R.T.; Zimanyi, G.T.
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)1997
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)1997
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[en] This is the final report of a three-year, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The authors carried out Monte Carlo studies of the critical behavior of superfluid 4He in aerogel. They found the superfluid density exponent increases in the presence of fractal disorder with a value roughly consistent with experimental results. They also addressed the localization of flux lines caused by splayed columnar pins. Using a Sine-Gordon-type of renormalization group study they obtained an analytic form for the critical temperature. They also determined the critical temperature from I-V characteristics obtained from a molecular dynamics simulation. The combined studies enabled one to construct the phase diagram as a function of interaction strength, temperature, and disorder. They also employed the recently developed mapping between boson world-lines and the flux motion to use quantum Monte Carlo simulations to analyze localization in the presence of disorder. From measurements of the transverse flux line wandering, they determined the critical ratio of columnar to point disorder strength needed to localize the bosons
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1997; 8 p; CONTRACT W-7405-ENG-36; Also available from OSTI as DE98001511; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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