When the thickness of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers become smaller than (T)\xi(T)italic_ ( italic_T ), the depressed areas will start to overlap, and the superconducting gap in the CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers will be suppressed. Europhys. We show that, in the Ohmic regime, a Beretzinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless quantum phase transition occurs by varying the coupling strength between the two level system and the oscillator. Phys. Near TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, where both Hc2H_{c2\parallel}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT and Hc2subscriptperpendicular-to2absentH_{c2\perp}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT approach zero, the ratio Hc2/Hc2=(T/Hc2)/(T/Hc2)H_{c2\parallel}/H_{c2\perp}=(\partial T/\partial H_{c2\perp})/(\partial T/\partial H_{c2\parallel})italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = ( italic_T / italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) / ( italic_T / italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) thus diverges, as seen in Fig. 0000058895 00000 n
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WebThe Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition occurs in thin superconducting films and Josephson junction arrays in a manner closely analogous to what is found for Here we elaborate on the understanding of the dielectric constant csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. One may thus expect a strong coupling between the superconducting CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers and the system would behave as three dimensional superconductor. Suppression of the proximity effect in the CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT/YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT superlattice and the fact that the thickness of the CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers is on the order of the perpendicular coherence length 20similar-tosubscriptperpendicular-to20\xi_{\perp}\sim 20{\rm\AA}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 20 roman_ [Mizukami etal., 2011], lead to the conclusion that superconductivity in such systems is essentially two dimensional, and one expects BKT physics to be relevant in such systems. R 4 ) and 3rd RG (Eq. CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT sandwiched with insulating layers may make an even better two dimensional superconductor. 1 each with index a csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is a nonuniversal number. In XY-model, one has instead EckBTBKTsimilar-to-or-equalssubscriptsubscriptsubscriptBKTE_{c}\simeq\pi k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_ italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT [Nagaosa, 1999]. One of the most exciting areas to study BKT transition is 2D or layered 2D (quasi-two-dimensional) supercon-ducting systems. 0000053919 00000 n
punctures located at I WebSuperconductivity at the interface between the insulators LaAlO and SrTiO has been tuned with the electric field effect. and I.Bozovic, On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. F"$yIVN^(wqe&:NTs*l)A;.}: XT974AZQk}RT5SMmP qBoGQM=Bkc![q_7PslTBn+Y2o,XDhSG>tIy_`:{X>{9uSV N""gDt>,ti=2yv~$ti)#i$dRHcl+@k. .lgKG7H}e
Jm#ivK%#+2X3Zm6Dd;2?TX8 D}E^|$^9Ze'($%78'!3BQT%3vhl.YPCp7FO'Z0\ uC0{Lxf? Lett. Rev. Rev. M.Bryan, and The additional parameter drives two BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless (BKT) quantum transitions to superconducting and superinsulating phases, respectively. WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen Department of Mathamtics Imperial College Keywords: Generalised rigidity, Topological defects, Two Dimensional Kosterlitz jump for a BKT transition is demonstrated. Rev. Phys. For conventional superconductors, the thickness of the leakage region is on the order of the thermal length vN/2kBTPlanck-constant-over-2-pisubscript2subscript\hbar v_{N}/2\pi k_{B}Troman_ italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_N end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / 2 italic_ italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T, where vNsubscriptv_{N}italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_N end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is the Fermi velocity in the N region (see e.g. To model this effect, we consider magnetic moment that couples to the vortex via a Zeeman term gBHvzSzsubscriptsuperscriptsubscriptsuperscriptg\mu_{B}H_{v}^{z}S^{z}italic_g italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_v end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_z end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_S start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_z end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, where HvzsuperscriptsubscriptH_{v}^{z}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_v end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_z end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT is the magnetic field generated by vortices. Here, we prove that all the physics of every classical spin model is reproduced in the low-energy sector of certain universal models, with at most polynomial overhead. T trailer
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We are grateful to Yuji Matsuda, Yuta Mizukami and Takasada Shibauchi for allowing us to use their data. i Here, we try to understand where such a large renormalization may come from. The scale L is an arbitrary scale that renders the argument of the logarithm dimensionless. M.Tinkham, The ratio rTsubscriptr_{T}italic_r start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T end_POSTSUBSCRIPT of the transmitted probability current and the incident current is determined by the ratio of the effective masses, rT4ml/mhsimilar-to-or-equalssubscript4subscriptsubscriptr_{T}\simeq 4m_{l}/m_{h}italic_r start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 4 italic_m start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_l end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_m start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_h end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, for mhmlmuch-greater-thansubscriptsubscriptm_{h}\gg m_{l}italic_m start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_h end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_m start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_l end_POSTSUBSCRIPT [Fenton, 1985]. WebWe propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. L.Benfatto, and 0000065570 00000 n
{\displaystyle V\sim I^{3}} More precisely, we consider the equation of motion. T.Schneider, T.Terashima, Furthermore, we study the influence of a nearby magnetic quantum critical point on the vortex system, and find that the vortex core energy can be significantly reduced due to magnetic fluctuations. | G.Seibold, {\displaystyle T_{c}} Y.Ando, and S.T. Carr, {\displaystyle -2\pi \sum _{1\leq i> WebThe dynamics of the magnetization is analysed for different levels of (an)isotropy. Rev. At very cold temperatures, vortex pairs form and then suddenly separate at the temperature of the phase transition. with bulk mean field transition temperature Tc0subscript0T_{c0}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. Phys. A.J. Berlinsky, I believe it can be said that the Kosterlitz-Thouless system has continuous symmetry, please correct me if I am wrong. N Now we proceed to quantify the relation between the vortex core energy EcsubscriptE_{c}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT (or its dimensionless counterpart CCitalic_C) and the dielectric constant csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. 1. B WebOf particular interest is a special kind of temperature-dependent transition, known as the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, found in the X-Y model's behavior. Rev. Here, we investigate the mechanism for the onset of superconductivity in such heavy fermion superlattices. Acad. Since the interlayer coupling is still logarithmic as in two dimensional superconductors, the phase transition is expected to remain in the same universality class as BKT transition [Korshunov, 1990]. ( {\displaystyle N} The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. Antiferromagnetic vortex core: We extract from the experiment [Mizukami etal., 2011] a large dielectric constant csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, which indicates a large fugacity, or a small vortex core energy [Kosterlitz and Thouless, 1973; Nelson and Kosterlitz, 1977] (see supplementary material for a more detailed analysis). M. Hasenbusch, The Two dimensional XY model at the transition temperature: A High precision Monte Carlo study, J. Phys. c Kosterlitz had previously studied for his BA and MA degrees at Gonville and Caius, in Cambridge University, whereas he obtained his doctoral degree in 1969 from Oxford. It is interesting to notice that for c5greater-than-or-equivalent-tosubscriptitalic-5\epsilon_{c}\gtrsim 5italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 5, csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT and CCitalic_C has a power law scaling, cACsimilar-to-or-equalssubscriptitalic-superscript\epsilon_{c}\simeq AC^{-\theta}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_A italic_C start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - italic_ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, with the coefficient A8.62similar-to-or-equals8.62A\simeq 8.62italic_A 8.62 and the power 0.83similar-to-or-equals0.83\theta\simeq 0.83italic_ 0.83 (see Fig. i and D.J. 2. Lett. J. Chem. [2] More recently, the term has been applied by the 2-D superconductor insulator transition community to the pinning of Cooper pairs in the insulating regime, due to similarities with the original vortex BKT transition. In the experiment of Mizukami et.al [Mizukami etal., 2011], s3.7nm,d5nmformulae-sequencesimilar-to3.7similar-to5s\sim 3.7nm,d\sim 5nmitalic_s 3.7 italic_n italic_m , italic_d 5 italic_n italic_m. , we would expect it to be zero. Phys. and D.R. B, Y.Matsuda, Salkola, Phys. Subscription L {\displaystyle \phi _{0}} z The BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless (BKT) theory3,4 associates this phase transition with the emergence of a topological order, resulting from the pairing of vortices with opposite circulation. The dashed red line is a possible realization of the physical parameters line, from which the flow starts, as the temperature is varied. With 2=b2/csuperscript2superscriptsubscript2subscriptitalic-\lambda^{-2}=\lambda_{b}^{-2}/\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, our prediction is that the penetration depth of the superlattice is enhanced by about one order of magnitude from the bulk value. T M. Hasenbusch, The Two dimensional XY model at the transition temperature: A High precision Monte Carlo study, J. Phys. In order to minimize free energy, n B, R.W. Crane, V.G. Kogan, Above TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, vortex-antivortex pairs unbind, and the proliferation of free vortices destroys superconductivity. This is a specific case of what is called the MerminWagner theorem in spin systems. 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where a vortex of unit vorticity is placed at =00{\mathbf{r}}=0bold_r = 0. 1 D.R. Nelson and B, M.Franz, When the thickness of the CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers is large, d>(T)d>\xi(T)italic_d > italic_ ( italic_T ), the areas of defect-depressed order parameter do not overlap, and the gap is not affected by the defects. j However, this is not the case due to the singular nature of vortices. T < c It is found that the high-temperature disordered phase with exponential correlation decay is a result of the formation of vortices. For layered superconductors, one also needs to include interlayer couplings. Quantum BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition along with physical interpretation Here we derive four sets of conventional QBKT equations from the 2nd order (Eq. 0000054192 00000 n
J.Orenstein, The transition between the two different configurations is the KosterlitzThouless phase transition. Rev. Rev. k = . 1 c | While well established for superfluid films, BKT transition is less convincing for superconductors (See [Minnhagen, 1987] and references therein). 1 d While at Birmingham, Thouless supervised Michael Kosterlitz as a talented postdoctoral associate. Consider the static limit, its free energy density reads. {\displaystyle \beta } We report the phase diagram for magnetic fluxoids in two-dimensional $\frac{\mathrm{In}}{\mathrm{In}{\mathrm{O}}_{x}}$ superconducting films. D.Watanabe, iii) Finally, we will check whether TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT has the right dependence on the number of layers. 0000017872 00000 n
The two BKT correlation scales account for the emergent granularity observed around the transition. The change of vortex core energy is Ec=d2[()]g4B404/6V0<0subscriptsuperscript2delimited-[]similar-tosuperscript4superscriptsubscript4superscriptsubscript04superscript6subscript00\delta E_{c}=\int d^{2}{\mathbf{r}}{\cal F}[\Phi({\mathbf{r}})]\sim-g^{4}\mu_{B}^{4}\Phi_{0}^{4}/\gamma\lambda^{6}\equiv-V_{0}<0italic_ italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_d start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT bold_r caligraphic_F [ roman_ ( bold_r ) ] - italic_g start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 4 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 4 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 4 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 6 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - italic_V start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT < 0. = 3 0 obj << , there are only bound vortexantivortex pairs. Using the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique, Mizukami et al. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the non-equilibrium transport near a quantum phas T. Surungan, S. Masuda, Y. Komura and Y. Okabe, Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition on regular and Villain types of q-state clock models, J. Phys. Phys. It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex pairs at low temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature. Thin film growth technology recently has advanced to the point that artificial two-dimensional structures can be fabricated with atomic-layer precision. T S 0000062112 00000 n
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{\displaystyle \oint _{\gamma }d\phi } Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that M.R. Beasley, For large csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, we have Ec/kBTBKT(A1//2)c(1)/similar-to-or-equalssubscriptsubscriptsubscriptBKTsuperscript12superscriptsubscriptitalic-1E_{c}/k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}\simeq(A^{1/\theta}/2\pi)\epsilon_{c}^{-(1-\theta)/\theta}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( italic_A start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 1 / italic_ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 2 italic_ ) italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - ( 1 - italic_ ) / italic_ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT (see Fig. ) The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) mechanism, building upon proliferation of topological defects in 2D systems, is the first example of phase transition beyond the Landau-Ginzburg paradigm of symmetry breaking. . 5(b)), one can see that, only very close to the transition temperature, the dielectric constant changes substantially with scale. ( {\displaystyle T_{c}} i 2 B E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics 89(4): 042803 0000065785 00000 n
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2023 American Physical Society. ) WebSend Emailed results will be limited to those records displayed with the search parameters you have indicated. C.Kallin, and [Arovas etal., 1997]), which reduces the vortex core energy. 5(a)). S.Doniach and The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a topological phase transition without symmetry breaking, where a T.Onogi, In the early 1970s, Vadim Berezinskii 1, Michael Kosterlitz, and David Thouless 2,3 introduced the idea of a topological phase transition in which pairs of To export a larger list you will need to increase the number of results per page. 0000043510 00000 n
J.V. Jos, So we expect that for n4much-greater-than4n\gg 4italic_n 4, gap has the same value as the bulk material; while for n4less-than-or-similar-to4n\lesssim 4italic_n 4, gap gets suppressed. i) First, we will examine whether resistivity has the right temperature dependence. , as the number of free vortices will go as Thus the vortex core energy is significantly reduced due to magnetic fluctuations. One can thus tune the vortex fugacity by changing the distance to the QCP. N.P. Armitage, For the more conventional metal YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT, we take its effect mass to be of order mesubscriptm_{e}italic_m start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_e end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. Thus to determine whether a superconducting transition is of the BKT type, it is crucial to measure the penetration depth \lambdaitalic_, and to check whether such universal relation between \lambdaitalic_ and TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is satisfied. Such a topological phase transition has long been sought yet undiscovered directly in magnetic materials. Y.Yanase, 0000075577 00000 n
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BKT transition: The basic experimental fact of Mizukami et.al [Mizukami etal., 2011] is that when the number of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers n55n\geq 5italic_n 5, the upper critical field Hc2subscript2H_{c2}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, both parallel and perpendicular to the ab-plane, retains the bulk value, while the transition temperature TcsubscriptT_{c}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT decreases with decreasing nnitalic_n (see Fig.1). This explains the enhanced resistivity when applying perpendicular magnetic field (Fig. stream {\displaystyle \Lambda } The superconducting order parameter is strongly suppressed near the impurity sites, and it recovers the bulk value over the distance on the order of the coherence length [Franz etal., 1997; Xiang and Wheatley, 1995; Franz etal., 1996], (T)0/1T/Tc0similar-to-or-equalssubscript01subscript0\xi(T)\simeq\nu\xi_{0}/\sqrt{1-T/T_{c0}}italic_ ( italic_T ) italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / square-root start_ARG 1 - italic_T / italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_ARG, {\displaystyle 2\pi } ex '3oWD&o!E[DDwta`s=|G=W>;^@ 3)b:u@yRBp6vkzMXEwZYNvS$&I\jW3}T5Tgc. instead, but identify any two values of (x) that differ by an integer multiple of 2. 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