The Behavior of Vortex Loops in the 3-d XY Model

Abstract

The behavior of vortex loops is studied in the 3-d XY model. It is found that the phase transtiton of the 3-d XY model is caused by percolating vortex loops.

Comments: 3 pages Write-up for Lattice'93, held in Dallas, TX. Comes as a shell archive, to be executed with /bin/sh, and contains the TeX-file, 6 PostScript figures, 1 sty-file and 1 TeX-input file