Phys. Rev. B 54, 16024–16031 (1996)Vortex lines in the three-dimensional XY model with random phase shiftsReceived 17 April 1996; published in the issue dated 1 December 1996 The stability of the ordered phase of the three-dimensional XY model with random phase shifts is studied by considering the roughening of a single stretched vortex line due to disorder. It is shown that the vortex line may be described by a directed polymer Hamiltonian with an effective random potential that is long-range correlated. A Flory argument estimates the roughness exponent to ζ=3/4 and the energy fluctuation exponent to ω=1/2, thus fulfilling the scaling relation ω=2ζ-1. The Schwartz-Edwards method as well as a numerical integration of the corresponding Burger’s equation confirms this result. Since ζ<1, the ordered phase of the original XY model is stable. ©1996 The American Physical Society. © 1996 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.54.16024
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.54.16024
PACS:
64.60.Fr, 64.70.Pf, 05.70.Jk
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