Sammendrag
We use large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations to study thermal fluctuations in chiral p-wave superconductors in
an applied magnetic field in three dimensions. We consider the thermal stability of previously predicted unusual
double-quanta flux-line lattice ground states in such superconductors. In previous works it was shown that,
neglecting thermal fluctuations, a chiral p-wave superconductor forms a hexagonal lattice of doubly-quantized
vortices, except extremely close to the vicinity of Hc2 where double-quanta vortices split apart. We find
dissociation of double-quanta vortices driven by thermal fluctuations. However, our calculations also show that
the previous predictions of hexagonal doubly-quantized vortices, where thermal fluctuations were ignored, are
very robust in the considered model.
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