Open this publication in new window or tab >>2025 (English)In: Physical Review Research, E-ISSN 2643-1564, Vol. 7, no 1, article id 013053Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
While the properties of standard (single-component) superfluids are well understood, principal differences arise in a special type of multicomponent systems - the so-called Borromean supercounterfluids - in which (i) supertransport is possible only in the counterflow regime and (ii) there are three or more counterflowing components. Borromean supercounterfluids's correlation and topological properties distinguish them from their single- and two-component counterparts. The component-symmetric case characterized by a distinctively different universality class of the supercounterfluid-to-normal phase transition is especially interesting. Using the recently introduced concept of compact-gauge invariance as the guiding principle, we develop the finite-temperature description of Borromean supercounterfluids in terms of an asymptotically exact long-wave effective action. We formulate and study Borromean XY and loop statistical models, capturing the universal long-range properties and allowing us to perform efficient worm algorithm simulations. Numeric results demonstrate perfect agreement with analytic predictions. Particularly instructive is the two-dimensional case, where the Borromean nature of the system is strongly manifested while allowing for an asymptotically exact analytic description.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Physical Society (APS), 2025
National Category
Subatomic Physics Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-359274 (URN)10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.013053 (DOI)001416185900003 ()2-s2.0-85215300251 (Scopus ID)
Note
QC 20250226
2025-01-292025-01-292025-02-26Bibliographically approved