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WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. 62 0 obj<>stream
They are meant for a junior researcher wanting to get accustomed to the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in the context of the 2D classical XY model. 4 can be observed experimentally. This suppression factor significantly degrades the proximity coupling to the point where 4 nm normal layer renders heavy fermion films essentially uncoupled. 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]. [Mizukami etal., 2011] is controlled by BKT transition of vortex-antivortex (un)binding. a The BKTHNY theory is underlain by the mechanism of quasi-long-range order Rev. 0000043510 00000 n
Finite-size scaling, finite-entanglement scaling, short-time critical dynamics, and finite-time scaling, as well as some of their interplay, are considered. 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]. 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. 60 0 obj<>
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{\displaystyle \Lambda } The KosterlitzThouless transition can be observed experimentally in systems like 2D Josephson junction arrays by taking current and voltage (I-V) measurements. KosterlitzThouless transitions is described as a dissociation of bound vortex pairs with opposite circulations, called vortexantivortex pairs, first described by Vadim Berezinskii. etal., Proc. 4). 0000026620 00000 n
T.Onogi, The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim The connection to the 2D Coulomb gas is presented in detail, as well as the I There are generally two kinds of couplings: the Josephson coupling and the magnetic interaction. >> M. Hasenbusch, The Two dimensional XY model at the transition temperature: A High precision Monte Carlo study, J. Phys. J.-M. Triscone, WebThe system of superconducting layers with Josephson coupling J is studied. and D.R. I believe it can be said that the Kosterlitz-Thouless system has continuous symmetry, please correct me if I am wrong. J. It is found that the high-temperature disordered phase with exponential correlation decay is a result of the formation of vortices. A large dielectric constant corresponds to a small vortex core energy. Phys. The WebSpin models are used in many studies of complex systems because they exhibit rich macroscopic behavior despite their microscopic simplicity. C.Kallin, and A salient feature of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT is the proximity to an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (QCP). Thouless, J. Phys. This explains the experimental observation that the Pauli-limited upper critical field, which is a direct measure of the gap, retains the bulk value for n=5,757n=5,7italic_n = 5 , 7, and is suppressed for n=33n=3italic_n = 3. Phys. c T.Shibauchi, 0000000016 00000 n
In these systems, thermal generation of vortices produces an even number of vortices of opposite sign. L.P. Kadanoff, B. H.-H. Wen, The transition temperature Tc displays unique universal features quite different from those of the traditional, short-range XY model. k {\displaystyle \gamma } {\displaystyle \phi _{0}} 0000025932 00000 n
T.Kato, ) Taking TBKT1.6Ksimilar-to-or-equalssubscriptBKT1.6T_{\rm BKT}\simeq 1.6Kitalic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 1.6 italic_K, one obtains Ec0.13meVsimilar-to-or-equalssubscript0.13meVE_{c}\simeq 0.13{\rm meV}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0.13 roman_meV. and I.Bozovic, punctures located at Just below 4 ) and 3rd RG (Eq. This is a non perturbative result, occurring even for extremely low dissipation magnitude. Using topology as a tool, they were able to astound the experts. S Proximity effect is expected to happen in such normal metal/superconductor (N/S) junctions. Now, we proceed to study the thickness dependence of the BKT transition temperature. In BKT theory, the vortex system is descibed by the Hamiltonian, where the stiffness K=ns2/4mkBTsubscriptsuperscriptPlanck-constant-over-2-pi24subscriptK=n_{s}\hbar^{2}/4mk_{B}Titalic_K = italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 4 italic_m italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T and the vortex fugacity y=eEc/kBTsuperscriptsubscriptsubscripty=e^{-E_{c}/k_{B}T}italic_y = italic_e start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT obey the renormalization group (RG) equations [Kosterlitz, 1974; Jos etal., 1977]. WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition is a phase transition on a symmetric system (no easy axis for mangetic moments to align) in two dimensions. B M.Gabay and For layered superconductors, one also needs to include interlayer couplings. It retains a small nonzero value in a temperature region below TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. B, G.E. Blonder, Rev. = 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. i of the KosterlitzThouless transition. B. M.Mondal, 0000025678 00000 n
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Rev. 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. In the opposite limit of a very thin normal YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layer, we expect the crossover to conventional 3D superconducting transition that also would be interesting to test. 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. F E.D. Bauer v+`>= o3n qB"`PV
vk.E|'"yb=lDdh#pG~ftrLo#VG8cahMHV.6@:k3Y5;qOn2I qLtJRUt /7UI Since the separation of the different CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers is larger than the perpendicular coherence length, the interlayer Josephson coupling is weak, and can be ignored. 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. 0000072681 00000 n
(with W is the number of states), the entropy is The dielectric constant and the vortex core energy thus has the relation cA(Ec/E0)similar-to-or-equalssubscriptitalic-superscriptsubscriptsubscript0\epsilon_{c}\simeq A(E_{c}/E_{0})^{-\theta}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_A ( italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - italic_ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT. 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]. Rev. , Salkola, Phys. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical prediction determined from Eq. Rev. After pointing out the relevance of this nontrivial problem, we discuss the phase diagram, which is far richer than the corresponding short-range one. T.Schneider, , where ; Zahn et al. / C.Kallin, and z 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. 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. [Fellows etal., ], where they study a related problem of BKT transition in the presence of competing orders, focusing on the behavior near the high symmetry point. Natl. B.I. Halperin and T.Terashima, Phys. Phys. {\displaystyle F=E-TS} Lett. B, T.Xiang and Phys. Conditions and any applicable 0 Another source of suppression of the proximity effect is the pair breaking effects of Yb ions at the interface (see supplementary material). 2 0000053029 00000 n
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 x B, J.M. Kosterlitz Low Temp. J.Schmalian, V 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs. However, as we will argue below, the large mismatch of Fermi velocities across the interface changes the story completely and enables quasi 2D superconductivity in CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT thin layers. Phys. , the relation will be This explains the enhanced resistivity when applying perpendicular magnetic field (Fig. 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. . For \gammaitalic_ small, core energy lowering effect can be very large. 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. n 0 A 38 (2005) 5869 [cond According to this theory, a two-dimensional crystal should melt via two continuous transitions of the BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless type with an intermediate hexatic phase. The following discussion uses field theoretic methods. B. D.J. Bishop and {\displaystyle S^{1}} rgreater-than-or-equivalent-tor\gtrsim\lambdaitalic_r italic_, H0subscript0H_{0}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT decays exponentially, and =00\Phi=0roman_ = 0 is the lowest energy solution. 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. R.Prozorov, and The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. A.Kamlapure, C.Castellani, WebThe resonant-level model represents a paradigmatic quantum system which serves as a basis for many other quantum impurity models. J.N. Eckstein, Taking a contour integral 0000073086 00000 n
x]sBsO % C6_&;m&%(R!b)g_L^DX.*^jEgruuJ32rgfCggkLB|Un0\xLdVY S'6XR_We1_H4y+i+ZjB.> 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. We find that the shape of the spectrum can not be explained It would be interesting to see whether phase diagrams as shown in Fig. 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]. After working with Thouless in Birmingham, he spent 2 years at Cornell. /Filter /FlateDecode 0000026475 00000 n
= A.J. Berlinsky, d -l_+? U|o68`j, a We propose a series of scaling theories for Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) phase transitions on the basis of the hallmark exponential growth of their correlation length. I.uti, S.Yasumoto, {\displaystyle T_{c}} N S.T. Carr, [Mizukami etal., 2011] are consistent with BKT transition. T . R It is a phase transition of infinite order. However, this is not the case due to the singular nature of vortices. Our proposal is that such behavior is due to the effect of phase fluctuations, which for the quasi-two-dimensional superconductors considered here is controlled by the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless physics [Berezinskii, 1970; Kosterlitz and Thouless, 1973]. Suppose that a given field configuration has {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}n_{i}=0} We acknowledge useful discussions with Lev Bulaevskii, Chih-Chun Chien, Tanmoy Das, Matthias Graf, Jason T. Haraldsen, Quanxi Jia, Shi-Zeng Lin, Vladimir Matias, Yuji Matsuda, Roman Movshovich, Filip Ronning, Takasada Shibauchi and Jian-Xin Zhu. [Pereiro etal., 2011] and references therein). Further, the existence of a decoherence-free subspace as well as of both classical and quantum (first-order and Kosterlitz-Thouless type) phase transitions, in the Omhic regime, is brought to light. This gives essentially the same result as Ref. /Length 2177 [3] to confirm the KosterlitzThouless transition in proximity-coupled Josephson junction arrays. . 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. > , as the number of free vortices will go as , entropic considerations favor the formation of a vortex. D.Maruyama, To export a larger list you will need to increase the number of results per page. WebPHYS598PTD A.J.Leggett 2013 Lecture 10 The BKT transition 1 The 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 where the order parameter is a complex scalar object1; the reason is simply that long-wavelength phase B winds counter-clockwise once around a puncture, the contour integral 0000018415 00000 n
Phys. k Our results show that both the anisotropic gas and the stripe phases follow the BKT scaling laws. 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]. Above TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, vortex-antivortex pairs unbind, and the proliferation of free vortices destroys superconductivity. {\displaystyle N} A.F. Hebard, Rev. i N.Reyren, and A. Uj]{6C!9kPdt^oT]gV$/oBorrb}}Yg*CZot]'LmcY$;u%Z'ASu3-?D(UG@xyxkhpY+jJ2 U
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W,'l+Pa SQA: sbV,/N+|3FWLf;gZJ'%E!}Vy"/`89=8>n_4 \4NrOh htuar-=k!dyOx In the 2-D XY model, vortices are topologically stable configurations. J.M. Wheatley, and D.J. 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. We also notice that the vortex core energy depends on \alphaitalic_, the distance to the QCP. = S.-C. Zhang, On the right (left) of the gray dotted line, the vortex fugacity y is irrelevant (relevant) (y/y0). 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]. 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). 1 The unbounded vortices will give rise to finite resistance. {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}n_{i}\arg(z-z_{i})} 0000065331 00000 n
WebSuperconductivity at the interface between the insulators LaAlO and SrTiO has been tuned with the electric field effect. 1 ) n 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. More extensive numerical studies of proximity effect in N/S junctions have been carried out recently [Valls etal., 2010], where it was shown that proximity effect is substantially suppressed with moderate mismatch of Fermi energies. B. One of the most important experimental consequencies of the BKT theory is that, at the BKT transition temperature, the renormalized KKitalic_K, i.e. i N.P. Ong, N.P. Armitage, ) S T.Shibauchi, {\displaystyle T_{c}} On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. x 0000073805 00000 n
Europhys. B, O.T. Valls, a Sci. T The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition Authors: Jrg Martin Frhlich ETH Zurich T. Spencer Content uploaded by Jrg Martin Frhlich Author content Content may be And, even though the basic details of this transition were worked out in 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, 0000008417 00000 n
{\displaystyle \oint _{\gamma }d\phi } {\displaystyle T_{c}} 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] . 2023 American Physical Society. V [Kogan, 2007; Benfatto etal., 2009]). 0000002120 00000 n
{\displaystyle R\gg a} Conclusions: In conclusion, we have proposed that superconducting transition in the heavy fermion superlattice of Mizukami et al. 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. Lett. S.Ono, 0000070328 00000 n
F F J. Phys. S Phys. 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. H.Kontani, Using the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique, Mizukami et al. %PDF-1.2 /Filter /FlateDecode 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. i 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. ( In these systems, thermal generation of vortices produces an C, S.Scheidl and We plot in Fig. This approach was used in Resnick et al. M.Yamashita, 0000062112 00000 n
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. 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. 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