Publication: Continuous thermal melting of a two-dimensional Abrikosov vortex solid

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Title	Continuous thermal melting of a two-dimensional Abrikosov vortex solid
Authors/Editors*	J. Iaconis, R. G. Melko, A. Burkov
Where published*	Physical Review B
How published*	Journal
Year*	2010
Volume	82
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Pages	180504
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Abstract	We examine the question of thermal melting of the triangular Abrikosov vortex solid in two-dimensional superconductors or neutral superfluids. We introduce a model, which combines lowest Landau-level (LLL) projection with the magnetic Wannier basis to represent degenerate eigenstates in the LLL. Solving the model numerically via large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, we find clear evidence for a continuous melting transition, in perfect agreement with the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young theory and with recent experiments.