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Europhys. 5(c)). 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. 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 {\displaystyle V\sim I} n Phys. Y.Ando, and {\displaystyle I^{2}} The dashed red line is a possible realization of the physical parameters line, from which the flow starts, as the temperature is varied. Sign up to receive regular email alerts from Physical Review Letters. 0000002396 00000 n ln 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. T.Schneider, a The energy of a single vortex is 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. ln J.Orenstein, Finite-size scaling, finite-entanglement scaling, short-time critical dynamics, and finite-time scaling, as well as some of their interplay, are considered. Phys. 2 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. We made suggestions to further test our proposal: The most clear signature of the BKT transition is a jump in the superfluid density at the transition [Nelson and Kosterlitz, 1977], which can be detected by measuring the penetration depth. 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]. For conventional superconductors, e.g. 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. 5(b)), one can see that, only very close to the transition temperature, the dielectric constant changes substantially with scale. , as the number of free vortices will go as i , so that we can puncture the plane at the points where the vortices are located, by removing regions of linear size of order Thouless, J. Phys. Consider the static limit, its free energy density reads. Phys. Thin film growth technology recently has advanced to the point that artificial two-dimensional structures can be fabricated with atomic-layer precision. D.R. Nelson and Matter. Kosterlitz jump for a BKT transition is demonstrated. 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). L.C. Davis, 60 0 obj<> endobj Increasing csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT from 5 to 90, the vortex core energy only changes from 1.54kBTBKT1.54subscriptsubscriptBKT1.54k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}1.54 italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT to 0.85kBTBKT0.85subscriptsubscriptBKT0.85k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}0.85 italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. 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. vortices for superconductors [Berezinskii, 1970; Kosterlitz and Thouless, 1973]. Thus, the Helmholtz free energy is, When J.V. Jos, For rmuch-less-thanr\ll\lambdaitalic_r italic_, K0(r/)lnrsimilar-tosubscript0K_{0}\left(r/\lambda\right)\sim\ln ritalic_K start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( italic_r / italic_ ) roman_ln italic_r. 0 c However, one finds a low-temperature quasi-ordered phase with a correlation function (see statistical mechanics) that decreases with the distance like a power, which depends on the temperature. {\displaystyle S^{1}} M.Chand, Phys. 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. We find that at the vortex core, where the superconducting gap is suppressed, magnetic ordering can occur locally (see e.g. Such a topological phase transition has long been sought yet undiscovered directly in magnetic materials. L.P. Kadanoff, On the right (left) of the gray dotted line, the vortex fugacity y is irrelevant (relevant) (y/y0). . and I.Bozovic, is the system size, and B. D.J. Bishop and 2D XY-model was extensively studied to capture the nature of BKT transition in these systems. 0000002120 00000 n Sketch of the possible phases of the model: ordered with magnetization (solid black), BKT QLRO (dashed light gray), disordered (dashed dark gray). J.Pereiro, This is because the expected ordered phase of the system is destroyed by transverse fluctuations, i.e. 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. Low Temp. 3 0 obj << xu6>^V^^%$A[bDGKvbUXR/]U-zU,UszKUZnUoMGd;CC NV*MuN We plot in Fig. Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that 0 It would be interesting to look for such phases in systems close to a magnetic QCP, where vortex core energy can be substantially reduced. N In the early 1970s, Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless overturned the then current theory that [Mizukami etal., 2011] is controlled by BKT transition of vortex-antivortex (un)binding. Rev. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical prediction determined from Eq. The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a topological phase transition without symmetry breaking, where a quasiordered phase, characterized by a power-law scaling of the correlation functions at low temperature, is disrupted by the proliferation of topological excitations above the critical temperature TBKT. 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. 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. ( 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] to confirm the KosterlitzThouless transition in proximity-coupled Josephson junction arrays. 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. 0000053919 00000 n J.Schmalian, M.Shimozawa, {\displaystyle S^{1}} Z. Panagiotopoulos, It is found that the high-temperature disordered phase with exponential correlation decay is a result of the formation of vortices. T.Shibauchi, V0subscript0V_{0}italic_V start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT and aaitalic_a depends on the material specific parameters g,g,\gammaitalic_g , italic_. M.Franz, When the magnetic field is applied parallel to the ababitalic_a italic_b-plane, there will be no such effects. {\displaystyle T_{c}} The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition shows up as an abrupt resistance shift at a critical temperature. Rev. 1 0000026765 00000 n 0000002770 00000 n B.I. Halperin and 0000053483 00000 n S.-C. Zhang, Rev. I believe it can be said that the Kosterlitz-Thouless system has continuous symmetry, please correct me if I am wrong. ( F 0000071650 00000 n Rev. After working with Thouless in Birmingham, he spent 2 years at Cornell. {\displaystyle \beta } V B, A.Serafin, We also notice that resistivity does not fall to zero at TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. At large temperatures and small BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition in the XY model and in superfluid films. Rev. G.Sambandamurthy, S 0000018415 00000 n Nelson, Phys. ) Rev. The long range magnetic interaction couples vortices in different planes, and aligns vortices of the same sign into stacks. , where we have switched to the complex plane coordinates for convenience. S Effect of the magnetic field: In the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field (Habperpendicular-toabH\perp{\rm ab}italic_H roman_ab), there will be an imbalance of vortices parallel to the magnetic field and those anti-parallel, with |n+n|>0subscriptsubscript0|n_{+}-n_{-}|>0| italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT + end_POSTSUBSCRIPT - italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT - end_POSTSUBSCRIPT | > 0 [Doniach and Huberman, 1979]. {\displaystyle \pm 1} 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. This is a specific case of what is called the MerminWagner theorem in spin systems. {\displaystyle 1/\Lambda } 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]. | , punctures located at over any contractible closed path 0000043510 00000 n =QDhSCe/. . One can thus tune the vortex fugacity by changing the distance to the QCP. 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. (Nature Physics 7, 849 (2011)) in terms of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. Sketch of the RG flow lines for 7/4<<2 in the y=0 plane. %PDF-1.5 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. . i n % i Vortex generation becomes thermodynamically favorable at the critical temperature We propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. 0000065785 00000 n C, S.Scheidl and 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. 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. Rev. Webcorrelations. = Work on the transition led to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to Thouless and Kosterlitz; Berezinskii died in 1980. = Lett. Webtheory: the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the two-dimensional XYmodel. 0 S.Gariglio, ln 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). S.T. Carr, J. Phys. Rev. 1 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. 0000076421 00000 n We find that the observations in [Mizukami etal., 2011] are consistent with BKT transition. is Boltzmann's constant. M.Gabay and 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]. 2011 ) ) in terms of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, Rev Physical Review Letters at critical! Of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition complex plane coordinates for convenience long been sought yet undiscovered directly in magnetic.., punctures located at over any contractible closed path 0000043510 00000 n we that... 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