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The effects of macroscopic ordering in a system of mesoscopic Josephson junctions are investigated by the quantum Monte Carlo simulation technique (using path integrals). The phase diagram of the system in the T-q plane (q is the dimensionless quantum parameter \(q = 2{e \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {e {\sqrt {JC_0 } }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\sqrt {JC_0 } }}\), where J is the Josephson coupling constant and C 0 is the self-capacitance of the granules) is investigated in detail. An analysis of the behavior of the relative root-mean-square phase shifts, as well as the helicity and vorticity moduli, demonstrates the need to employ these two quantities as the parameters which most completely reflect the character of the topological phase transition in the quantum system under consideration. Two methods are proposed for calculating the vorticity modulus: 1) a modification of the Gibbs-Bogolyubov variational principle for calculating the free energy change in response to alteration of the type of boundary conditions; 2) calculation of the response to the introduction of an infinitesimal magnetic flux at some point in the system. The calculations confirm the absence of reentrant melting and phase transitions of a non-Kosterlitz-Thouless type in the region of strong quantum phase fluctuations q>1.
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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 1513–1519 (September 1997)
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Belousov, A.I., Lozovik, Y.E. Quantum phase fluctuations in an array of mesoscopic Josephson junctions. Phys. Solid State 39, 1345–1351 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1130076
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