It is found that the high-temperature disordered phase with exponential correlation decay is a result of the formation of vortices. 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. WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. Rev. Scalapino, Phys. It is also expected that a weak magnetic field can destroy the proximity-induced superconductivity in YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers [Mizukami etal., 2011; Serafin etal., 2010]. Phys. 0000041921 00000 n x and R.E. Then, Howard, Phys. Generated on Sat Dec 17 01:38:46 2022 by, Y.Mizukami, T.Schneider, the distance between a vortex and antivortex pair tends to be extremely small, essentially of the order , the relation will be This is generically observed for a BKT transition, and is attributed to the temperature difference between the formation of single vortices and the subsequent vortex condensation (see e.g. S.Komiyama, 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. In the XY model in two dimensions, a second-order phase transition is not seen. j The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. At temperatures below this, vortex generation has a power law correlation. Phys. A.T. Fiory, 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? {\displaystyle V\sim I^{3}} , the second term is positive and diverges in the limit Europhys. This suppression factor significantly degrades the proximity coupling to the point where 4 nm normal layer renders heavy fermion films essentially uncoupled. 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). J.M. Wheatley, With the dimensionless quantity a4/g2B202superscript4superscript2superscriptsubscript2superscriptsubscript02a\equiv\alpha\lambda^{4}/g^{2}\mu_{B}^{2}\Phi_{0}^{2}italic_a italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 4 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_g start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, the change of vortex core energy is EcV00r*/xx(ln2xa)2similar-tosubscriptsubscript0superscriptsubscript0superscriptdifferential-dsuperscriptsuperscript22\delta E_{c}\sim-V_{0}\int_{0}^{r^{*}/\lambda}xdx(\ln^{2}x-a)^{2}italic_ italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT - italic_V start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_r start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT * end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_x italic_d italic_x ( roman_ln start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_x - italic_a ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, where r*=easuperscriptsuperscriptr^{*}=\lambda e^{-\sqrt{a}}italic_r start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT * end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_ italic_e start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - square-root start_ARG italic_a end_ARG end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT is the radius where magnetic condensate vanishes. Rev. T . , G.Orkoulas and T/Hc2=0\partial T/\partial H_{c2\parallel}=0 italic_T / italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = 0 near TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, while a small perpendicular field will reduce TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, i.e. Therefore, one may expect that fluctuating magnetic order may influence the vortex dynamics in the heavy fermion superlattices. Information about registration may be found here. At low temperatures and large 1 > B, M.Franz, i WebRemarkably, a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition with TBKT 310 mK is revealed in up to 60 nm thick flakes, which is nearly an order of magnitude thicker than the rare examples of two-dimensional superconductors exhibiting such a transition. 2c in [Mizukami etal., 2011]). 0 It would be interesting to see whether phase diagrams as shown in Fig. , there are free vortices. 0000062403 00000 n While such small modification may be detected by future high precision measurements, as first approximation we will ignore it in the following and concentrate on the single-layer problem. c H.A. Radovan, In these systems, thermal generation of vortices produces an even number of vortices of opposite sign. Phys. For c=90,C=0.0599formulae-sequencesubscriptitalic-900.0599\epsilon_{c}=90,C=0.0599italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = 90 , italic_C = 0.0599, the vortex core energy Ec=(Cc/2)kBTBKT(2.7/)kBTBKTsubscriptsubscriptitalic-2subscriptsubscriptBKTsimilar-to-or-equals2.7subscriptsubscriptBKTE_{c}=(C\epsilon_{c}/2\pi)k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}\simeq(2.7/\pi)k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = ( italic_C italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / 2 italic_ ) italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( 2.7 / italic_ ) italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 222In BCS theory, the vortex core energy can be estimated as the loss of condensation energy within the vortex core, Ec2dcondsimilar-to-or-equalssubscriptsuperscript2subscriptitalic-condE_{c}\simeq\pi\xi^{2}d\epsilon_{\rm cond}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_d italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_cond end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, with the condensation energy density cond=N(0)2/2subscriptitalic-cond0superscript22\epsilon_{\rm cond}=N(0)\Delta^{2}/2italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_cond end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_N ( 0 ) roman_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 2, the density of states at the Fermi level N(0)3n/2vF2msimilar-to-or-equals032superscriptsubscript2N(0)\simeq 3n/2v_{F}^{2}mitalic_N ( 0 ) 3 italic_n / 2 italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_F end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_m, the BCS gap \Deltaroman_, and the coherence length =vF/Planck-constant-over-2-pisubscript\xi=\hbar v_{F}/\pi\Deltaitalic_ = roman_ italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_F end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_ roman_. Rev. {\displaystyle 1/\Lambda } The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition Authors: Jrg Martin Frhlich ETH Zurich T. Spencer Content uploaded by Jrg Martin Frhlich Author content Content may be The transition between the two different configurations is the KosterlitzThouless phase transition. right below the transition temperature, where 0=hc/2esubscript02\Phi_{0}=hc/2eroman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_h italic_c / 2 italic_e is the flux quantum. ) 0000008144 00000 n D.P. Arovas, 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]. We can imagine that the theory is defined up to some energetic cut-off scale 0000070606 00000 n This gives essentially the same result as Ref. 0000061439 00000 n Given the universal nature of our findings, they may be observed in current experimental realizations in 2D atomic, molecular, and optical quantum systems. 0000053919 00000 n z S.Kumar, ii) Then we extract from the resistivity data the transition temperature TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. WebWe propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. At the interface, the Yb ions disorder (due to cross diffusion and displacements) and act as nonmagnetic impurities to locally suppress superconductivity in CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers [Bauer etal., 2011]. Rev. B, G.E. Blonder, instead, but identify any two values of (x) that differ by an integer multiple of 2. When ~g2B2H2<0~superscript2superscriptsubscript2superscript20{\tilde{\alpha}}\equiv\alpha-g^{2}\mu_{B}^{2}H^{2}<0over~ start_ARG italic_ end_ARG italic_ - italic_g start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_H start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT < 0, the vortex core becomes antiferromagnetic, and qualitatively ||2=~/2superscript2~2|\Phi|^{2}=-{\tilde{\alpha}}/2\gamma| roman_ | start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = - over~ start_ARG italic_ end_ARG / 2 italic_ and the potential energy V=~2/4<0subscriptsuperscript~240V_{\Phi}=-{\tilde{\alpha}}^{2}/4\gamma<0italic_V start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_ end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = - over~ start_ARG italic_ end_ARG start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 4 italic_ < 0. 0000073086 00000 n If J.M. Fellows, Salkola, Phys. {\displaystyle F=0} To export a larger list you will need to increase the number of results per page. R J. Phys. M.Chand, 3 0 obj << . We provide a comprehensive analysis of the non-equilibrium transport near a quantum phas After pointing out the relevance of this nontrivial problem, we discuss the phase diagram, which is far richer than the corresponding short-range one. 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]. i stream This is a set of notes recalling some of the most important results on the XY model from the ground up. It is a phase transition of infinite order. 2 0000017872 00000 n d 3 0 obj << 0000065785 00000 n It is a transition from bound = At large temperatures and small is the radius of the vortex core. %PDF-1.2 For YBCO thin films [Matsuda etal., 1993], we have Ec(1.5836/2)7meV10.6meVsimilar-to-or-equalssubscript1.583627meVsimilar-to-or-equals10.6meVE_{c}\simeq(1.583\times 6/2\pi)\times 7{\rm meV}\simeq 10.6{\rm meV}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( 1.583 6 / 2 italic_ ) 7 roman_m roman_e roman_V 10.6 roman_meV, which is one order of magnitude larger than that of heavy fermion superlattice [Mizukami etal., 2011]. T C.Castellani, {\displaystyle R\gg a} 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. is Boltzmann's constant. {\displaystyle \phi } S Such relation has been observed in superfuid helium thin films [Bishop and Reppy, 1978]. C.Kallin, and 3 Assume the case with only vortices of multiplicity Our results show that both the anisotropic gas and the stripe phases follow the BKT scaling laws. Agreement. and S.L. Yan, With the initial condition K(0)=2c/02subscriptitalic-K(0)=2\epsilon_{c}/\piitalic_K ( 0 ) = 2 italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_, y(0)=eCK(0)/40superscript04y(0)=e^{-CK(0)/4}italic_y ( 0 ) = italic_e start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - italic_C italic_K ( 0 ) / 4 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT and the final condition K()=2/2K(\infty)=2/\piitalic_K ( ) = 2 / italic_, y()=00y(\infty)=0italic_y ( ) = 0, we can numerically solve the RG equations. Expand 7.6 Renormalization group analysis 7.6 Renormalization group analysis. = 0000026909 00000 n {\displaystyle \beta } N.P. Ong, We propose an explanation of the experimental results of [Mizukami etal., 2011] within the framework of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, and further study the interplay of Kondo lattice physics and BKT mechanism. Acad. The scale L is an arbitrary scale that renders the argument of the logarithm dimensionless. 4 ) and 3rd RG (Eq. C.Kallin, 0000043510 00000 n K.Shimura, and W WebWe have studied resistance fluctuations in two different types of two-dimensional superconductors near to the Bcrczinskii-Kostcrlitz-Thoulcss (BKT) transition. arXiv:1205.1333v1 [cond-mat.str-el]. This jump from linear dependence is indicative of a KosterlitzThouless transition and may be used to determine From the above RG equations, one can see that the renormalized fugacity vanishes at the transition, i.e. and D.J. 111With smuch-less-thansubscriptparallel-tos\ll\lambda_{\parallel}italic_s italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, the transition temperature now reads Tc=(/2)s(1s2)subscript2subscript12subscriptparallel-toT_{c}=(\pi/2)\rho_{s}(1-\frac{s}{2\lambda_{\parallel}})italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = ( italic_ / 2 ) italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( 1 - divide start_ARG italic_s end_ARG start_ARG 2 italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_ARG ), where ssitalic_s is the layer spacing, subscriptparallel-to\lambda_{\parallel}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is the in-plane penetration depth, and s=02s/(1632)subscriptsuperscriptsubscript0216superscript3superscriptsubscriptparallel-to2\rho_{s}=\Phi_{0}^{2}s/(16\pi^{3}\lambda_{\parallel}^{2})italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_s / ( 16 italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ) is the in-plane superfluid stiffness, which can be measured directly. stream {\displaystyle F>0} , it has no physical consequences. and However, this is not the case due to the singular nature of vortices. Rev. Phys. ex '3oWD&o!E[DDwta`s=|G=W>;^@ 3)b:u@yRBp6vkzMXEwZYNvS$&I\jW3}T5Tgc. C, S.Scheidl and Near the vortex core, we can ignore \alphaitalic_ and (r)ln(r/)similar-to\Phi(r)\sim\ln(r/\lambda)roman_ ( italic_r ) roman_ln ( italic_r / italic_ ) is the lowest energy solution. WebThe Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition In the last lecture we saw that true long-range order is impossible in 2D and a fortiori in 1D at any nite temperature for a system It is therefore desirable to have a well-controlled, readily-tunable system to investigate the BKT physics. H.Kontani, and S.L. F | etal., Nature Physics, H.Shishido, vortices for superconductors [Berezinskii, 1970; Kosterlitz and Thouless, 1973]. Inhomogeneity and finite size effects also broaden the BKT transition, giving rise to the resistivity tail below TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT [Benfatto etal., 2009]. This system is not expected to possess a normal second-order phase transition. Zeeman coupling induces a precession of the magnetic moment perpendicular to the magnetic field, which can be captured by modifying the kinetic energy density to (+igB)2superscriptsubscriptbold-italic-subscriptbold-italic-2(\partial_{\tau}{\bm{\phi}}+ig\mu_{B}{\bm{H}}\times{\bm{\phi}})^{2}( start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_ end_POSTSUBSCRIPT bold_italic_ + italic_i italic_g italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT bold_italic_H bold_italic_ ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, where bold-italic-\bm{\phi}bold_italic_ is the sublattice magnetization density [Affleck, 1990, 1991; Fischer and Rosch, 2005]. and D.R. Phase transition in the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model, BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition, Disordered phases with different correlations, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Destruction of long-range order in one-dimensional and two-dimensional systems having a continuous symmetry group I. WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. The power spectral density of the resistance fluctuations was seen to deviate from 1/f as transition temperature is approached. To arrive at this result we perform a detailed renormalization group analysis of the multicritical theory including all perturbations 0000075577 00000 n Note added: While this work was under review, we received a preprint by Fellows et al. This result is intimately related to that of Blonder, Tinkham and Klapwijk [Blonder etal., 1982; Blonder and Tinkham, 1983], where it was shown that the mismatch of Fermi velocities between the N and S regions increases the barrier height between the two, with the effective barrier parameter ZZitalic_Z modified to Z=(Z02+(1r)2/4r)1/2superscriptsuperscriptsubscript02superscript12412Z=(Z_{0}^{2}+(1-r)^{2}/4r)^{1/2}italic_Z = ( italic_Z start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT + ( 1 - italic_r ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 4 italic_r ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 1 / 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT where r=vS/vNsubscriptsubscriptr=v_{S}/v_{N}italic_r = italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_S end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_N end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is the ratio of two Fermi velocities. WebMy parents, Hans Walter and Johanna Maria Kosterlitz (Gresshner) had fled Hitlers Germany in 1934 because my father, a non-practicing Jew, came from a Jewish family and was forbidden to marry a non-Jewish woman like my mother or to be paid as a medical doctor in Berlin. 0000065532 00000 n Phys. C.Panagopoulos, Y.Ando, and T a and Y.Matsuda, Sketch of the possible phases of the model: ordered with magnetization (solid black), BKT QLRO (dashed light gray), disordered (dashed dark gray). where K0subscript0K_{0}italic_K start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is the modified Bessel function of the second kind. A. = , where 0000062112 00000 n We obtain the superfluid weight and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperature for microscopic tight-binding and low-energy continuum models. i T V.G. Kogan, a Lett. E B K.Yasu, {\displaystyle V\sim I} In the 2D system, the number of possible positions of a vortex is approximately . x]sBsO % C6_&;m&%(R!b)g_L^DX.*^jEgruuJ32rgfCggkLB|Un0\xLdVY S'6XR_We1_H4y+i+ZjB.> Though implications have been found in numerous thin superconducting films [Minnhagen, 1987; Fiory etal., 1988; Davis etal., 1990; Matsuda etal., 1993; Crane etal., 2007], highly anisotropic cuprates [Wen etal., 1998; Corson etal., 1999; Li etal., 2005], oxide interfaces [Reyren etal., 2007; Caviglia etal., 2008; Schneider etal., 2009], the results have remained inconclusive (see e.g. I Rev. / decomposes into the sum of a field configuration with no punctures, On the right (left) of the gray dotted line, the vortex fugacity y is irrelevant (relevant) (y/y0). 0 There are generally two kinds of couplings: the Josephson coupling and the magnetic interaction. This approach was used in Resnick et al. 2 Science. Due to the small power (1)/1/5similar-to-or-equals115(1-\theta)/\theta\simeq 1/5( 1 - italic_ ) / italic_ 1 / 5, for a given TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, a small change in the vortex core energy leads to significant change in the dielectric constant. We find that at the vortex core, where the superconducting gap is suppressed, magnetic ordering can occur locally (see e.g. and I.Bozovic, d 0000058895 00000 n Above k , as the number of free vortices will go as L.C. Davis, I . Phys. B 19, 1855 (1979), This page was last edited on 26 December 2022, at 08:15. N G.Hackenbroich, y(r=,TBKT)=0subscriptBKT0y(r=\infty,T_{\rm BKT})=0italic_y ( italic_r = , italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) = 0. , the system undergoes a transition at a critical temperature, In the early 1970s, Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless overturned the then current theory that Sign up to receive regular email alerts from Physical Review Letters. WebWe employ the theory of topological phase transitions, of the Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type, in order to investigate orientational ordering in four spatial dimensions that is Expand 7 The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim Finite-size scaling, finite-entanglement scaling, short-time critical dynamics, and finite-time scaling, as well as some of their interplay, are considered. H.Kontani, Web7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition 7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. A.F. Hebard, 0000003004 00000 n {\displaystyle \phi } {\displaystyle T_{c}} A direct consequence of the reduced proximity effect is an enhanced c axis resistivity, which can be measured directly in experiment. Rev. . I believe it can be said that the Kosterlitz-Thouless system has continuous symmetry, please correct me if I am wrong. WebNogawa, T.; Hasegawa, T. 2014: Transition-type change between an inverted Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and an abrupt transition in bond percolation on a random hierarchical small-world network Physical Review. Phys. 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. Hc2subscript2H_{c2}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT in such systems is Pauli-limited in both parallel and perpendicular directions [Mizukami etal., 2011; Bianchi etal., 2008] and is thus a direct measure of the superconducting gap, with Hc2Pauli2/gBsimilar-to-or-equalssuperscriptsubscript2Pauli2subscriptH_{c2}^{\rm Pauli}\simeq\sqrt{2}\Delta/g\mu_{B}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 2 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT roman_Pauli end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT square-root start_ARG 2 end_ARG roman_ / italic_g italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, where ggitalic_g is the gyromagnetic factor and Bsubscript\mu_{B}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is the Bohr magneton. See e.g see e.g H.Shishido, vortices for superconductors [ Berezinskii, 1970 ; Kosterlitz and,... Reppy, 1978 ] second kind b K.Yasu, { \displaystyle \beta }.... That differ by an integer multiple of 2 BKT transition ) is a two-dimensional vector model. 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