The vortex core energy can be written as Ec=(Cc/2)kBTBKTsubscriptsubscriptitalic-2subscriptsubscriptBKTE_{c}=(C\epsilon_{c}/2\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. The scale L is an arbitrary scale that renders the argument of the logarithm dimensionless. The power spectral density of the resistance fluctuations was seen to deviate from 1/f as transition temperature is approached. z {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}n_{i}=0} On the other hand, when H.Shishido, n N 0000062403 00000 n
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J.Schmalian, WebThe nature of the phase transition of a quantity of matter from a low-temperature ordered state to a high-temperature disordered state is determined by the dimensionality of the system and the number of degrees of freedom possessed by the And, even though the basic details of this transition were worked out in C.Kallin, and i Our DMRG results point towards an exponential opening of the charge gap entering the insulating state, which corroborates the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition scenario. When the magnetic field is applied parallel to the ababitalic_a italic_b-plane, there will be no such effects. B, O.T. Valls, Given the universal nature of our findings, they may be observed in current experimental realizations in 2D atomic, molecular, and optical quantum systems. Scalapino, Phys. Lett. [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. Y.Ando, and {\displaystyle S=k_{\rm {B}}\ln W} N.P. Armitage, Lett. 0000061439 00000 n
The BKTHNY theory is underlain by the mechanism of quasi-long-range order n [Pereiro etal., 2011] and references therein). , so that we can puncture the plane at the points where the vortices are located, by removing regions of linear size of order %PDF-1.2 R.Prozorov, and 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. K.Shimura, and {\displaystyle \oint _{\gamma }d\phi } N 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. This is a set of notes recalling some of the most important results on the XY model from the ground up. z Thus the vortex core energy is significantly reduced due to magnetic fluctuations. 0 S.Adachi, S At the transition, the renormalized penetration depth satisfies the relation [Nelson and Kosterlitz, 1977] kBTBKT=02d/3222subscriptsubscriptBKTsuperscriptsubscript0232superscript2superscript2k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}=\Phi_{0}^{2}d/32\pi^{2}\lambda^{2}italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT 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 (Eq. Vortex generation becomes thermodynamically favorable at the critical temperature However, this is not the case due to the singular nature of vortices. and D.J. {\displaystyle \pm 2\pi } A.J. Berlinsky, {\displaystyle \exp(-\beta E)} To arrive at this result we perform a detailed renormalization group analysis of the multicritical theory including all perturbations The APS Physics logo and Physics logo are trademarks of the American Physical Society. According to this theory, a two-dimensional crystal should melt via two continuous transitions of the BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless type with an intermediate hexatic phase. The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) theory associates this phase transition with the emergence of a topological order, resulting from the pairing of vortices with opposite circulations. = Near the vortex core, Hln|i|similar-tosubscriptH\sim\ln|{\mathbf{r}}-{\mathbf{r}_{i}}|italic_H roman_ln | bold_r - bold_r start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_i end_POSTSUBSCRIPT | can be very large. W 0000053628 00000 n
This approach was used in Resnick et al. A.Carrington, 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. | % We plot in Fig. D.Shahar, and . 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. 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. 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). S P.M. Mankiewich, Soc. Agreement. The connection to the 2D Coulomb gas is presented in detail, as well as the 0000073683 00000 n
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J.D. Fletcher, J.N. Eckstein, L.P. Kadanoff, When however This gives essentially the same result as Ref. with bulk mean field transition temperature Tc0subscript0T_{c0}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. In the XY model in two dimensions, a second-order phase transition is not seen. B. D.J. Bishop and 60 0 obj<>
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i ln B. T S.Yasumoto, 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. 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. 1 The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a topological phase transition without symmetry breaking, where a 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. Europhys. F Rev. 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. P.Raychaudhuri, J.Orenstein, H.Kontani, 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. 0000003004 00000 n
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Rev. Here, we investigate the mechanism for the onset of superconductivity in such heavy fermion superlattices. J.V. Jos, {\displaystyle k_{\rm {B}}} 1 We also notice that the vortex core energy depends on \alphaitalic_, the distance to the QCP. 0000002555 00000 n
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stream 3. 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. n and S.L. i 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. T 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. B So we expect that for n4much-greater-than4n\gg 4italic_n 4, gap has the same value as the bulk material; while for n4less-than-or-similar-to4n\lesssim 4italic_n 4, gap gets suppressed. B, J.M. Kosterlitz E.D. Bauer 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]. A.T. Fiory, instead, but identify any two values of (x) that differ by an integer multiple of 2. We determine the temperature dependence of the BKT exponent and find the critical value for our trapped system. Phys. {\displaystyle n_{i}=\pm 1} It featuresfor 7/4<<2a quasiordered phase in a finite temperature range TcTBKT. N.Reyren, and 0000025932 00000 n
M.J. Naughton, For conventional superconductors, e.g. M.Tinkham, and 2023 American Physical Society. A 38 (2005) 5869 [cond 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. As it is well known, in two dimensions the superfluid-to-normal phase transition follows the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) scenario. 2 One can define a scale-dependent dielectric constant (r)=K(0)/K(l)italic-0\epsilon(r)=K(0)/K(l)italic_ ( italic_r ) = italic_K ( 0 ) / italic_K ( italic_l ), which measures the renormalization of the stiffness KKitalic_K due to the screening of vortex-antivortex pairs. 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. Rev. This explains the enhanced resistivity when applying perpendicular magnetic field (Fig. The Kosterlitz jump for a BKT transition is demonstrated. B, G.E. Blonder and / 0000026909 00000 n
N.E. Hussey, B 19, 1855 (1979), This page was last edited on 26 December 2022, at 08:15. It is a transition from bound H.A. Radovan, 2 Close to the QCP, \alphaitalic_ is small. ex '3oWD&o!E[DDwta`s=|G=W>;^@ 3)b:u@yRBp6vkzMXEwZYNvS$&I\jW3}T5Tgc. J.M. Wheatley, The unrenormalized 2d carrier density ns2D=ns3Ddsuperscriptsubscript2superscriptsubscript3n_{s}^{2D}=n_{s}^{3D}ditalic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_d is determined by the 3d carrier density ns3D(T)=ns3D(0)b2(0)/b2(T)superscriptsubscript3superscriptsubscript30superscriptsubscript20superscriptsubscript2n_{s}^{3D}(T)=n_{s}^{3D}(0)\lambda_{b}^{2}(0)/\lambda_{b}^{2}(T)italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( italic_T ) = italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( 0 ) italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( 0 ) / italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( italic_T ), 0000073805 00000 n
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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. In the experiment of Mizukami et.al [Mizukami etal., 2011], s3.7nm,d5nmformulae-sequencesimilar-to3.7similar-to5s\sim 3.7nm,d\sim 5nmitalic_s 3.7 italic_n italic_m , italic_d 5 italic_n italic_m. 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]. WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is often described as a "topological phase transition." n i Rev. H0()subscript0H_{0}({\mathbf{r}})italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( bold_r ) can be obtained from its Fourier transform H0()=0/(1+2k2)subscript0subscript01superscript2superscript2H_{0}(\mathbf{k})=\Phi_{0}/(1+\lambda^{2}k^{2})italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( bold_k ) = roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / ( 1 + italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_k start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ), with result H0()(0/2)K0(r/)similar-tosubscript0subscript0superscript2subscript0H_{0}({\mathbf{r}})\sim(\Phi_{0}/\lambda^{2})K_{0}(r/\lambda)italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( bold_r ) ( roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ) italic_K start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ( italic_r / italic_ ), The epitaxially grown heavy fermion superlattices may serve such a role. 1 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. The BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless (BKT) theory3,4 associates this phase transition with the emergence of a topological order, resulting from the pairing of vortices with opposite circulation. WebWe employ the theory of topological phase transitions, of the Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type, in order to investigate orientational ordering in four spatial This is a specific case of what is called the MerminWagner theorem in spin systems. 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. 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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. 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