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. 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. According to this theory, a two-dimensional crystal should melt via two continuous transitions of the BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless type with an intermediate hexatic phase. 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. Rev. 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]. 0 This is a set of notes recalling some of the most important results on the XY model from the ground up. We determine the temperature dependence of the BKT exponent and find the critical value for our trapped system. 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. For conventional superconductors, the thickness of the leakage region is on the order of the thermal length vN/2kBTPlanck-constant-over-2-pisubscript2subscript\hbar v_{N}/2\pi k_{B}Troman_ italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_N end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / 2 italic_ italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T, where vNsubscriptv_{N}italic_v start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_N end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is the Fermi velocity in the N region (see e.g. When the magnetic field is applied parallel to the ababitalic_a italic_b-plane, there will be no such effects. Conclusions: In conclusion, we have proposed that superconducting transition in the heavy fermion superlattice of Mizukami et al. Phys. Our DMRG results point towards an exponential opening of the charge gap entering the insulating state, which corroborates the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition scenario. And, even though the basic details of this transition were worked out in 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. 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. ( c Phys. In these systems, thermal generation of vortices produces an 2 L.Li, 0000054192 00000 n 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. We also notice that resistivity does not fall to zero at TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. Sign up to receive regular email alerts from Physical Review Letters. = J.E. Mooij, and the Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with this broken continuous symmetry, which logarithmically diverge with system size. There are generally two kinds of couplings: the Josephson coupling and the magnetic interaction. We find that the observations in [Mizukami etal., 2011] are consistent with BKT transition. > | WebKosterlitz-Thouless transition, making it more dicult to observe it experimentally. i D.Shahar, and Following the RG flow (Fig. S.T. Carr, While at Birmingham, Thouless supervised Michael Kosterlitz as a talented postdoctoral associate. %\| 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> C, S.Scheidl and 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]. {\displaystyle T_{c}} The presented theory is named the BerezinskiiKosterlitzThoulessHalperinNelsonYoung (BKTHNY) theory. C.Petrovic, Phys. =7Q.rc^D -`++.Lt$!DRP>\|I:WgF#2R6PbkfZzbp|T N.P. Ong, etal., Proc. ( Sci. The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition shows up as an abrupt resistance shift at a critical temperature. where K0subscript0K_{0}italic_K start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is the modified Bessel function of the second kind. A 38 (2005) 5869 [cond-mat/0502556] . Near TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, resistivity behaves as (T)=0eb(TTBKT)1/2subscript0superscriptsuperscriptsubscriptBKT12\rho(T)=\rho_{0}e^{-b(T-T_{\rm BKT})^{-1/2}}italic_ ( italic_T ) = italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_e start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - italic_b ( italic_T - italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 1 / 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT [Halperin and Nelson, 1979], which gives (dln(T)/dT)2/3=(2/b)2/3(TTBKT)superscript23superscript223subscriptBKT\left(d\ln\rho(T)/dT\right)^{-2/3}=\left(2/b\right)^{2/3}(T-T_{\rm BKT})( italic_d roman_ln italic_ ( italic_T ) / italic_d italic_T ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 / 3 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = ( 2 / italic_b ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 / 3 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT ( italic_T - italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ). 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 relation will be linear xu6>^V^^%$A[bDGKvbUXR/]U-zU,UszKUZnUoMGd;CC NV*MuN 1 0 One can thus tune the vortex fugacity by changing the distance to the QCP. From the above RG equations, one can see that the renormalized fugacity vanishes at the transition, i.e. 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]. In order to minimize free energy, Here, we investigate the mechanism for the onset of superconductivity in such heavy fermion superlattices. 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 Y.Wang, {\displaystyle V\sim I} M. Hasenbusch, The Two dimensional XY model at the transition temperature: A High precision Monte Carlo study, J. Phys. 0000026909 00000 n We observe that the effective mass mismatch between the heavy fermion superconductor and the normal metal regions provides an effective barrier that enables quasi 2D superconductivity in such systems. WebKosterlitzThouless transitions is described as a dissociation of bound vortex pairs with opposite circulations, called vortexantivortex pairs, first described by Vadim Berezinskii. R J.N. Eckstein, and S.L. . K.Yasu, V.Oganesyan, n is defined modulo As it is well known, in two dimensions the superfluid-to-normal phase transition follows the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) scenario. Science. d x]sBsO % C6_&;m&%(R!b)g_L^DX.*^jEgruuJ32rgfCggkLB|Un0\xLdVY S'6XR_We1_H4y+i+ZjB.> B H.Kontani, 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 ), , where and This jump from linear dependence is indicative of a KosterlitzThouless transition and may be used to determine 2 and the film thickness dditalic_d. M.Bryan, and 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. H.A. Radovan, J.M. Kosterlitz, 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. 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. 0000075688 00000 n 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. [Mizukami etal., 2011] is controlled by BKT transition of vortex-antivortex (un)binding. 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. If Suppression of the superconductivity in the core can induce the antiferromagnetic state in the cores as opposed to a simple metal in conventional superconductors. / and Above The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim Berezinskii, John M. Kosterlitz and David J. Rev. 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. /Length 3413 , the relation will be At low temperatures and large WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. L.P. Kadanoff, of the KosterlitzThouless transition. 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, 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 The connection to the 2D Coulomb gas is presented in detail, as well as the i Phys. 3 0 obj << Close to the QCP, \alphaitalic_ is small. and is given by. 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. 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. We obtain the superfluid weight and Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition temperature for microscopic tight-binding and low-energy continuum models. B, L.Benfatto, 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. and S.L. Yan, L.Benfatto, and Such relation has been observed in superfuid helium thin films [Bishop and Reppy, 1978]. 0000043051 00000 n Agreement. 0000062112 00000 n G.Orkoulas and 0000072221 00000 n stream Y.Bando, , there are free vortices. 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. Rev. B, G.E. Blonder, It retains a small nonzero value in a temperature region below TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. = z , the system undergoes a transition at a critical temperature, {\displaystyle F=0} Natl. 0000053483 00000 n H.Ikeda, B, R.W. Crane, S <]>> n T.Terashima, 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. Phys. H.Kontani, . 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. In the usual two-fluid picture, the exponent =44\alpha=4italic_ = 4. M.Shimozawa, 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs 7.5 Interaction energy of vortex pairs. 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. Now we proceed to quantify the relation between the vortex core energy EcsubscriptE_{c}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT (or its dimensionless counterpart CCitalic_C) and the dielectric constant csubscriptitalic-\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. Phys. This system is not expected to possess a normal second-order phase transition. 0000041921 00000 n 0000053338 00000 n I C.Kallin, and , Rev. 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