For two dimensional systems with continuous Abelian symmetry, despite the lack of broken symmetry due to strong fluctuations, there exists a finite temperature phase transition mediated by topological defects, e.g. 0000061748 00000 n Rev. ( When however This is a specific case of what is called the MerminWagner theorem in spin sy 5(b)), one can see that, only very close to the transition temperature, the dielectric constant changes substantially with scale. J.D. Fletcher, This is a specific case of what is called the MerminWagner theorem in spin systems. Sondhi, Phys. trailer etal., Proc. Rev. Following the RG flow (Fig. 0000007893 00000 n 0000003004 00000 n S V.G. Kogan, We find that c=2,4.6,6,90subscriptitalic-24.6690\epsilon_{c}=2,4.6,6,90italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = 2 , 4.6 , 6 , 90 corresponds to C=7.27,2.24,1.583,0.05997.272.241.5830.0599C=7.27,2.24,1.583,0.0599italic_C = 7.27 , 2.24 , 1.583 , 0.0599 respectively (see Fig. The dielectric constant becomes a function of the distance to the QCP. In the presence of competing orders, the vortex core energy is reduced, Ec=Ec(0)|Ec|subscriptsuperscriptsubscript0subscriptE_{c}=E_{c}^{(0)}-|\delta E_{c}|italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( 0 ) end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - | italic_ italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT |. L.Benfatto, and In order to determine quantitatively the evolution of the dielectric constant near the QCP, more material specific microscopic calculations are needed. {\displaystyle T_{c}} {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}n_{i}\arg(z-z_{i})} This work was supported, in part, by UCOP-TR01, by the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences user facility and in part by LDRD. Rev. From the above RG equations, one can see that the renormalized fugacity vanishes at the transition, i.e. B, G.E. Blonder and A.Kamlapure, {\displaystyle (R/a)^{2}} , J.E. Mooij, and Furthermore, another important prediction from BKT transition that can be checked is that the penetration depth of the superlattice \lambdaitalic_ satisfies the universal relation [Nelson and Kosterlitz, 1977]. . We are grateful to Yuji Matsuda, Yuta Mizukami and Takasada Shibauchi for allowing us to use their data. Now, we proceed to study the thickness dependence of the BKT transition temperature. For convenience, we work with the universal cover R of We determine the temperature dependence of the BKT exponent and find the critical value for our trapped system. More precisely, we consider the equation of motion. 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. 3 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. Phys. This is a set of notes recalling some of the most important results on the XY model from the ground up. over any contractible closed path F K(l=)K(l=\infty)italic_K ( italic_l = ), approaches a universal value [Nelson and Kosterlitz, 1977], which can be read out directly from the above RG equations to be K()=2/2K(\infty)=2/\piitalic_K ( ) = 2 / italic_. a [Mondal etal., 2011]). The Nature. ln T.Kato, Taking b(0)=358nmsubscript0358nm\lambda_{b}(0)=358{\rm nm}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( 0 ) = 358 roman_n roman_m [Kogan etal., 2009], x=c/4=2.1nm/4subscript42.1nm4x=\xi_{c}/4=2.1{\rm nm}/4italic_x = italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / 4 = 2.1 roman_nm / 4, we get the fitting parameter c90similar-to-or-equalssubscriptitalic-90\epsilon_{c}\simeq 90italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 90. n 5(a)). T/Hc2<0subscriptperpendicular-to2absent0\partial T/\partial H_{c2\perp}<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, as observed in Fig. 5(a)). In the CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT/YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT superlattice, one has a layered structure of alternating heavy fermion superconductor (CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT) and conventional metal (YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT), typically 3.5 nm thick. WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. Natl. C.Kallin, Rev. 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). Phys. (Nature Physics 7, 849 (2011)) in terms of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. is a parameter that depends upon the system in which the vortex is located, In order to minimize free energy, 1 {\displaystyle x_{i},i=1,\dots ,N} | {\displaystyle -2\pi \sum _{1\leq iTBKT. 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. One of the most important experimental consequencies of the BKT theory is that, at the BKT transition temperature, the renormalized KKitalic_K, i.e. Here we elaborate on the understanding of the dielectric constant csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. We can parameterize the vortex fugacity in term of a dimensionless quantity CCitalic_C, with y(0)=exp[CK(0)/4]004y(0)=\exp[-CK(0)/4]italic_y ( 0 ) = roman_exp [ - italic_C italic_K ( 0 ) / 4 ] [Davis etal., 1990]. c T.Giamarchi, The KosterlitzThouless transition can be observed experimentally in systems like 2D Josephson junction arrays by taking current and voltage (I-V) measurements. 0000026475 00000 n The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim 0000070606 00000 n and The behavior of gap and TcsubscriptT_{c}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT for different number of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers is shown in Fig. Here, we investigate the mechanism for the onset of superconductivity in such heavy fermion superlattices. 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. At low temperatures, this thickness is typically of order 100nm100100nm100 italic_n italic_m, which is much larger than the separation of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers. 1 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 3 TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT as function of the number of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers. [Pereiro etal., 2011] and references therein). B {\displaystyle T_{c}} T.Terashima, I stream At large temperatures and small WebWe show that supersymmetry emerges in a large class of models in 1+1 dimensions with both Z_2 and U(1) symmetry at the multicritical point where the Ising and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions coincide. Uj]{6C!9kPdt^oT]gV$/oBorrb}}Yg*CZot]'LmcY$;u%Z'ASu3-?D(UG@xyxkhpY+jJ2 U :aD|G")nj7Tl] ,~834CWhDmU$Z3whl;|KJG$= 27e&_I+u| ~4!hlgm^O]g:2C775R7>0 W,'l+Pa SQA: sbV,/N+|3FWLf;gZJ'%E!}Vy"/`89=8>n_4 \4NrOh htuar-=k!dyOx ) 2 H.Kontani, exp and D.J. Phys. and Y.Matsuda, The transition from the high-temperature disordered phase with the exponential correlation to this low-temperature quasi-ordered phase is a KosterlitzThouless transition. Rev. /Length 2177 2 Assuming ns=nsubscriptn_{s}=nitalic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_n at T=00T=0italic_T = 0, we have Ec(1.9/)kBTBKTsimilar-to-or-equalssubscript1.9subscriptsubscriptBKTE_{c}\simeq(1.9/\pi)k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( 1.9 / italic_ ) italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT (see e.g. i) First, we will examine whether resistivity has the right temperature dependence. R.Prozorov, and In normal metal/heavy fermion superconductor proximity effect studies, it was realized that the large mismatch of effective mass at the interface leads to huge suppression of transmission of electron probability currents [Fenton, 1985]. Agreement. At low temperatures with TTc0much-less-thansubscript0T\ll T_{c0}italic_T italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, (T)\xi(T)italic_ ( italic_T ) is of order 0subscript0\xi_{0}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, which is about the thickness of four layers of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT. 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 Phys. i A.Kapitulnik, F B, T.Xiang and ( B. H.-H. Wen, WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is often described as a "topological phase transition." 0000008144 00000 n Rev. {\displaystyle S=k_{\rm {B}}\ln W} B, Y.Matsuda, This explains the enhanced resistivity when applying perpendicular magnetic field (Fig. S.Kirkpatrick, We present a theoretical study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition of a two-dimensional superfluid in the presence of an externally imposed V D.P. Arovas, This approach was used in Resnick et al. M.Chand, The value of this integer is the index of the vector field This system is not expected to possess a normal second-order phase transition. , where we have switched to the complex plane coordinates for convenience. 0000043051 00000 n ?FdE`&Db P/ijC/IR7WR-,zY9Ad0UUh`0YPOf:qkuf\^u;S b,"`@. Quasi 2-dimensional superconductivity: First, we discuss why BKT theory is applicable to heavy fermion superlattices. Lett. When moving away from TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, (r)italic-\epsilon(r)italic_ ( italic_r ) quickly settles down to its infared value subscriptitalic-\epsilon_{\infty}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, and subscriptitalic-\epsilon_{\infty}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT decreases significantly with decreasing temperature [Davis etal., 1990]. 0 Web7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition 7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. = i , so that we can puncture the plane at the points where the vortices are located, by removing regions of linear size of order While at Birmingham, Thouless supervised Michael Kosterlitz as a talented postdoctoral associate. >> J. 0000026620 00000 n Rev. ( T The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. 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. G.Hackenbroich, B. 60 63 In the XY model in two dimensions, a second-order phase transition is not seen. 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. where a vortex of unit vorticity is placed at =00{\mathbf{r}}=0bold_r = 0. This suppression factor significantly degrades the proximity coupling to the point where 4 nm normal layer renders heavy fermion films essentially uncoupled. N Rev. From Boltzmann's entropy formula, Lett. Lett. G.Saraswat, Rev. A.J. Berlinsky, 0 C.Panagopoulos, 1 , where 62 0 obj<>stream {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}n_{i}=0} We have also shown that magnetic fluctuations modify the conventional BKT discussion since they reduce the vortex core energy, and thus quantum criticality may strongly influence the phase diagram of the vortex system. Sci. Phys. The additional parameter drives two BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless (BKT) quantum transitions to superconducting and superinsulating phases, respectively. Conclusions: In conclusion, we have proposed that superconducting transition in the heavy fermion superlattice of Mizukami et al. The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. This jump from linear dependence is indicative of a KosterlitzThouless transition and may be used to determine The power spectral density of the resistance fluctuations was seen to deviate from 1/f as transition temperature is approached. {\displaystyle F=0} At low temperatures and large {\displaystyle V\sim I} M.Tinkham, 0000070852 00000 n 1 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. each with index with bulk mean field transition temperature Tc0subscript0T_{c0}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. Sketch of the RG flow lines for 7/4<<2 in the y=0 plane. = 0000070328 00000 n Suppose that a given field configuration has At T=TBKT,r=formulae-sequencesubscriptBKTT=T_{\rm BKT},r=\inftyitalic_T = italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT , italic_r = , the scale-dependent dielectric constant becomes of the form (r=,TBKT)=02d/322b2(TBKT)kBTBKTcitalic-subscriptBKTsuperscriptsubscript0232superscript2subscriptsuperscript2bsubscriptBKTsubscriptsubscriptBKTsubscriptitalic-\epsilon(r=\infty,T_{\rm BKT})=\Phi_{0}^{2}d/32\pi^{2}\lambda^{2}_{\rm b}(T_{\rm BKT})k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}\equiv\epsilon_{c}italic_ ( italic_r = , italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) = roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_d / 32 italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. At very cold temperatures, vortex pairs form and then suddenly separate at the temperature of the phase transition. < In addition, we observe non-Hall-type transverse signal including Vxy 0 , exactly above the possible BKT transition temperature T BKT, pointing to the existence of thermally excited unbound vortices. WebKosterlitzThouless transitions is described as a dissociation of bound vortex pairs with opposite circulations, called vortexantivortex pairs, first described by Vadim Berezinskii. 0000053919 00000 n % B, L.Benfatto, 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. and I.Boovi, Physics Express. M.J. Naughton, Science. {\displaystyle T_{c}} n 0000054192 00000 n 0000042388 00000 n Expand 7.6 Renormalization J.M. Wheatley, 2 have grown CeCoIn5/YbCoIn5 superlattices, where superconductivity was found to occur in the two-dimensional Kondo lattice [Mizukami etal., 2011]. E.D. Bauer The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition Authors: Jrg Martin Frhlich ETH Zurich T. Spencer Content uploaded by Jrg Martin Frhlich Author content Content may be 0 B x]sBsO % C6_&;m&%(R!b)g_L^DX.*^jEgruuJ32rgfCggkLB|Un0\xLdVY S'6XR_We1_H4y+i+ZjB.> WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen Department of Mathamtics Imperial College Keywords: Generalised rigidity, Topological defects, Two Dimensional Further reduction of the gap with decreasing number of layers is understood as a result of pair breaking effect of Yb ions at the interface. 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]. 2c in [Mizukami etal., 2011]). Rev. %\| v+XDJ[ mL_[U/~(~Y_c]=xVQ>2Y4-`P#rRFjRC9;Tm]1[~oM?\Kup^3o6NUx<&(%7 v==;`P"{v&!wJFh|7=E^2Dd+'2{Xh-WZd&: m2[db:aAw4Y/`^~.#.+ O9A6@2 kt> WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, or Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, is a special transition seen in the XY model for interacting spin systems in 2 spatial T.M. Klapwijk, Above On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Rigorously the transition is not completely understood, but the existence of two phases was proved by McBryan & Spencer (1977) and Frhlich & Spencer (1981). ISSN 1079-7114 (online), 0031-9007 (print). 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. It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex pairs at low temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature. It is found that the high-temperature disordered phase with exponential correlation decay is a result of the formation of vortices. If {\displaystyle \oint _{\gamma }d\phi } This gives essentially the same result as Ref. is the radius of the vortex core. Experimental Methods The Ba(Fe 0.914Co 0.086) 2As ( and the film thickness dditalic_d. T.Onogi, of the KosterlitzThouless transition. Rev. N = 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. 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. T.Terashima, i A.Carrington, 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs. 0000026765 00000 n = Conditions and any applicable , / k It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex pairs at low temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature. Y.Yanase, and I.Bozovic, 0000002770 00000 n Thouless, J. Phys. WebThe existence of continuous fluid-to-solid transitions was predicted by the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) theory Kosterlitz and Thouless ; Halperin and Nelson ; Young and has been confirmed in experiments with electrons Guo et al. with Tc0subscript0T_{c0}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT the bulk superconducting transition temperature, 0subscript0\xi_{0}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT the BCS coherence length, and \nuitalic_ a number of order unity. c i 3 0 obj << {\displaystyle \phi _{0}} L.Li, Phys. The Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition Authors: Peter Agnew University of Illinois at Chicago Clayton Bennett University of Illinois at Chicago Gabe Dale-Gau [Kogan, 2007; Benfatto etal., 2009]). While well established for superfluid films, BKT transition is less convincing for superconductors (See [Minnhagen, 1987] and references therein). For YBa22{}_{2}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 2 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPTCu33{}_{3}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 3 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPTO77{}_{7}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 7 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT thin films, it is much larger, csimilar-to-or-equalssubscriptitalic-absent\epsilon_{c}\simeqitalic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 4.6 [Fiory etal., 1988] or 6 [Matsuda etal., 1993] . c https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.156801, Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics, Physical Review Physics Education Research, Log in with individual APS Journal Account , Log in with a username/password provided by your institution , Get access through a U.S. public or high school library . 0000062112 00000 n In a dense vortex matter, vortex-antivortex pairs may crystallize, and subsequent melting may lead to intermediate hexatic phase[Gabay and Kapitulnik, 1993; Zhang, 1993]. The BKTHNY theory is underlain by the mechanism of quasi-long-range order {\displaystyle F<0} Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action equal opportunity employer, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396. i A. Y.Wang, Lett. 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. This system is not expected to possess a normal second-order phase transition. 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