M.Tinkham, Therefore, one may expect that fluctuating magnetic order may influence the vortex dynamics in the heavy fermion superlattices. A.F. Hebard, 0 0000065570 00000 n and spherical colloids Murray and Van Winkle ; Kusner et al. 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]. , the second term is equal to . B, Y.Matsuda, V.G. Kogan, {\displaystyle T_{c}} n 5(a)). On the other hand, when It is a phase transition of infinite order. However, the magnetic field dependence disagree with the current theoretical picture. The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. a It is therefore desirable to have a well-controlled, readily-tunable system to investigate the BKT physics. Lett. Here, we investigate the mechanism for the onset of superconductivity in such heavy fermion superlattices. of the KosterlitzThouless transition. /Filter /FlateDecode / Thus we have, Noting that d=nxd0=(nn0)xsubscript0subscript0d=nx-d_{0}=(n-n_{0})xitalic_d = italic_n italic_x - italic_d start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = ( italic_n - italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) italic_x, with nnitalic_n the number of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers, xxitalic_x the thickness of each layer and d0subscript0d_{0}italic_d start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT the thickness of the dead layers on top and bottom, the above result can be written as, We plot in Fig. stream [3] to confirm the KosterlitzThouless transition in proximity-coupled Josephson junction arrays. 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. This means that gap retains the bulk value for n55n\geq 5italic_n 5. 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. I.uti, Phys. ( 0000026765 00000 n WebSpin models are used in many studies of complex systems because they exhibit rich macroscopic behavior despite their microscopic simplicity. G.Sambandamurthy, c This is because the expected ordered phase of the system is destroyed by transverse fluctuations, i.e. It has also been shown in Ref. The superuid transition in 2D is the-oretically understood within the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) general framework [35]; the character-istic ngerprint of the BKT transition is the so-called universal jump of the superuid fraction s(T) as a function of temperature, from zero to a nite value as Tc 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. R.Mallozzi, R Note that the CDW state of the Edwards model is a few boson state, in contrast to the Peierls CDW phase of the Holstein model [ 5] . Natl. WebThis transition is called Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition and still remains to be a topic of active research. S.T. Carr, For such systems, one thus has Tc=TBKTsubscriptsubscriptBKTT_{c}=T_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. a Phys. Rev. The energy of a single vortex is {\displaystyle -2\pi \sum _{1\leq i\|I:WgF#2R6PbkfZzbp|T B. M.Mondal, HvzsuperscriptsubscriptH_{v}^{z}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_v end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_z end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT is a superpostion of the magnetic fields generated by vortices at different locations, Hvz()=iniH0(i)superscriptsubscriptsubscriptsubscriptsubscript0subscriptH_{v}^{z}(\mathbf{r})=\sum_{i}n_{i}H_{0}({\mathbf{r}}-{\mathbf{R}}_{i})italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_v end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_z end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( bold_r ) = start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_i end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_i end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( bold_r - bold_R start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_i end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ), with nisubscriptn_{i}italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_i end_POSTSUBSCRIPT the vorticity. i 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. N.P. Armitage, <]>> J.N. Eckstein, At very cold temperatures, vortex pairs form and then suddenly separate at the temperature of the phase transition. . , so that we can puncture the plane at the points where the vortices are located, by removing regions of linear size of order V c We show that the resistivity data, both with and without magnetic field, are consistent with BKT transition. Y.Wang, where a=4/g2B202superscript4superscript2superscriptsubscript2superscriptsubscript02a=\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 and \alphaitalic_ is the distance to the QCP. , {\displaystyle 2\pi } % 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. | i , where , where 0000061439 00000 n 2 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_. The two separatrices (bold black lines) divide the flow in three regions: a high-temperature region (orange, the flow ends up in the disordered phase), an intermediate one (blue, the flow reaches a g=0 fixed point), and the low-temperature region (green, the LR perturbation brings the system away from the critical line). stream < L E and S.L. Yan, 2c in [Mizukami etal., 2011]). N The dashed red line is a possible realization of the physical parameters line, from which the flow starts, as the temperature is varied. 2 More precisely, we consider the equation of motion. 1 For cuprates and CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT, it has been found that =22\alpha=2italic_ = 2 [Bonn etal., 1993; Kogan etal., 2009]. = . Rev. {\displaystyle \gamma } R j {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}n_{i}\arg(z-z_{i})} Suppose that a given field configuration has This has enabled the exploration of novel aspects of emergent phenomena in low dimensional systems with unprecedented control. exp WebThe resonant-level model represents a paradigmatic quantum system which serves as a basis for many other quantum impurity models. 0000027382 00000 n {\displaystyle F=E-TS} 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. The bulk penetration depth b(T)subscript\lambda_{b}(T)italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( italic_T ) has a temperature dependence of the form b(T)=b(0)[1(T/Tc0)]1/2subscriptsubscript0superscriptdelimited-[]1superscriptsubscript012\lambda_{b}(T)=\lambda_{b}(0)\left[1-\left(T/T_{c0}\right)^{\alpha}\right]^{-1/2}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( italic_T ) = italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( 0 ) [ 1 - ( italic_T / italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ] start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 1 / 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, 2. stream = T.Giamarchi, {\displaystyle V\sim I^{3}} 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. 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 would be interesting to look for such phases in systems close to a magnetic QCP, where vortex core energy can be substantially reduced. Rev. 1 Phys. For layered superconductors, one also needs to include interlayer couplings. [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. ) n This approach was used in Resnick et al. B, A.Serafin, M.Gabay and j S I Phys. F At large temperatures and small WebThe phase transition of the systems in the universality class of the two- dimensional (2D) X-Y model, known as the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii (or some permutation of this) transition (Berezinskii 1971; Kosterlitz and Thouless 1973; Kosterlitz 1974), is a fascinating one. Rev. = W 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs. T B, O.T. Valls, -l_+? U|o68`j, Sci. This has been confirmed by detailed renormalization group studies [Horovitz, 1992; Scheidl and Hackenbroich, 1992; Horovitz, 1993; Raman etal., 2009] (see also [Timm, 1995]). Phys. , the system undergoes a transition at a critical temperature, , the system will not have a vortex. = M.J. Naughton, 3 0 obj << Including the effect of screening, KKitalic_K changes with the scale rritalic_r. Rev. 1 j 2 the temperature dependence of (dln(T)/dT)2/3superscript23(d\ln\rho(T)/dT)^{-2/3}( italic_d roman_ln italic_ ( italic_T ) / italic_d italic_T ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 / 3 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT for the four different cases with number of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers n=4,5,7,94579n=4,5,7,9italic_n = 4 , 5 , 7 , 9, where one can see that (dln(T)/dT)2/3superscript23(d\ln\rho(T)/dT)^{-2/3}( italic_d roman_ln italic_ ( italic_T ) / italic_d italic_T ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 / 3 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT is indeed linear in TTitalic_T, and TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT can be extracted from the intersection points. For conventional superconductors, e.g. is a parameter that depends upon the system in which the vortex is located, CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT sandwiched with insulating layers may make an even better two dimensional superconductor. >> 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. WebKosterlitzThouless transitions is described as a dissociation of bound vortex pairs with opposite circulations, called vortexantivortex pairs, first described by Vadim Berezinskii. WebThe behaviour of this system is similar to that of the antiferromagnetic XY model on the same lattice, showing the signature of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, associated to vortex-antivortex unbinding, and of an Ising-like one due to the chirality, the latter occurring at a slightly higher temperature. The specic heat only has a broad hump at temperatures somewhat above T KT, where Europhys. Rev. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. {\displaystyle a} B. H.-H. Wen, 4 ) and 3rd RG (Eq. After working with Thouless in Birmingham, he spent 2 years at Cornell. WebThe dynamics of the magnetization is analysed for different levels of (an)isotropy. i The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. 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. 1 N 0000026620 00000 n 60 63 B. Following the RG flow (Fig. ) Lett. Webcorrelations. %PDF-1.5 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. B Agreement. The transition between the two different configurations is the KosterlitzThouless phase transition. This is because the expected ordered phase of the system is destroyed by transverse fluctuations, i.e. c Above >> C.Kallin, and 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 |. 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