Abstract
To study relaxation dynamics of the two-dimensional gauge glass, we integrate directly the equations of motion and investigate the energy function. As usual, it decays exponentially at high temperatures; at low but nonzero temperatures, it is found to exhibit an algebraic relaxation. We compute the relaxation time as a function of the temperature and find that the rapid increase of at low temperatures is well described by with and , which strongly suggests a finite-temperature glass transition. The decay of vorticity is also examined and explained in terms of a simple heuristic model, which attributes the fast relaxation at high temperatures to annihilation of unpinned vortices.
- Received 21 March 1997
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.56.6007
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