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Superconductor-insulator transition and universal resistance in Josephson-junction arrays in a magnetic field

Enzo Granato, J. M. Kosterlitz

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1267 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

The zero-temperature superconducting transition in a Josephson-junction array with half of a flux quantum per plaquette is considered. Its critical behavior is described by an effective free energy in three dimensions with a transition in a new universality class. From this we infer the critical behavior and the value of the universal resistance at the transition. Relevance of these results to recent experiments on very-small-capacitance arrays is discussed.

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