First-order versus unconventional phase transitions in three-dimensional dimer models

We study the phase transition between the Coulomb liquid and the columnar crystal in the 3D classical dimer model, which was found to be continuous in the O(3) universality class. In addition to nearest-neighbor interactions which favor parallel dimers, further neighbor interactions are allowed in s...

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Main Authors: Stefanos Papanikolaou, Joseph Betouras
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12754
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