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Superconductor-insulator transition in two-dimensional dirty boson systems

Mats Wallin, Erik S. So/rensen, S. M. Girvin, A. P. Young

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.49.12115 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Universal properties of the zero-temperature superconductor-insulator transition in two-dimensional amorphous films are studied by extensive Monte Carlo simulations of bosons in a disordered medium. We report results for both short-range and long-range Coulomb interactions for several different points in parameter space. In all cases we observe a transition from a superconducting phase to an insulating Bose glass phase. From finite-size scaling of our Monte Carlo data we determine the universal conductivity σ* and the critical exponents at the transition. The result σ*=(0.55±0.66)(2e)2/h for bosons with long-range Coulomb interaction is roughly consistent with experiments reported so far. We also find σ*=(0.14±0.03)(2e)2/h for bosons with short-range interactions.

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