S The transition from the high-temperature disordered phase with the exponential correlation to this low-temperature quasi-ordered phase is a KosterlitzThouless transition. Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that M.Gabay and G.Orkoulas and 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). 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. B, L.Benfatto, Generated on Sat Dec 17 01:38:46 2022 by, Y.Mizukami, . M.Tinkham, and 0000000016 00000 n
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T.Terashima, B, Y.Matsuda, x exp xb```f``b`c``d@ A;SVF7_P: . Science. The XY model is a two-dimensional vector spin model that possesses U(1) or circular symmetry. S.Kirkpatrick, Sketch of the RG flow lines for 7/4<<2 in the y=0 plane. %PDF-1.5 k We determine the temperature dependence of the BKT exponent and find the critical value for our trapped system. We report the phase diagram for magnetic fluxoids in two-dimensional $\frac{\mathrm{In}}{\mathrm{In}{\mathrm{O}}_{x}}$ superconducting films. 1 The complex argument function has a branch cut, but, because 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]. D.Shahar, and 3. When the thickness of the CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers is large, d>(T)d>\xi(T)italic_d > italic_ ( italic_T ), the areas of defect-depressed order parameter do not overlap, and the gap is not affected by the defects. : Condens. 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. , ( Subscription {\displaystyle S^{1}} 2. This work was supported, in part, by UCOP-TR01, by the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences user facility and in part by LDRD. k 4). M.Bryan, and WebThe existence of continuous fluid-to-solid transitions was predicted by the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) theory Kosterlitz and Thouless ; Halperin and Nelson ; Young and has been confirmed in experiments with electrons Guo et al. a 0000076421 00000 n
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Sketch of the possible phases of the model: ordered with magnetization (solid black), BKT QLRO (dashed light gray), disordered (dashed dark gray). 2 C, S.Scheidl and J.M. Wheatley, this distance increases, and the favoured configuration becomes effectively the one of a gas of free vortices and antivortices. ( This is a specific case of what is called the MerminWagner theorem in spin sy S.Yasumoto, stream /Length 2177 = , which is the total potential energy of a two-dimensional Coulomb gas. M. Hasenbusch, The Two dimensional XY model at the transition temperature: A High precision Monte Carlo study, J. Phys. 0000007893 00000 n
Using the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique, Mizukami et al. n , where 3 0 obj << Y.Bando, 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. M.Franz, The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a topological phase transition without symmetry breaking, where a Thus, the Helmholtz free energy is, When Matter. , entropic considerations favor the formation of a vortex. One may thus expect a strong coupling between the superconducting CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers and the system would behave as three dimensional superconductor. The additional parameter drives two BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless (BKT) quantum transitions to superconducting and superinsulating phases, respectively. This system is not expected to possess a normal second-order phase transition. After working with Thouless in Birmingham, he spent 2 years at Cornell. rgreater-than-or-equivalent-tor\gtrsim\lambdaitalic_r italic_, H0subscript0H_{0}italic_H start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT decays exponentially, and =00\Phi=0roman_ = 0 is the lowest energy solution. The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim Berezinskii, John M. Kosterlitz and David J. In the early 1970s, Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless overturned the then current theory that L.Benfatto, and C.Petrovic, J.Corson, Jpn. Lett. Given the universal nature of our findings, they may be observed in current experimental realizations in 2D atomic, molecular, and optical quantum systems. , where we have switched to the complex plane coordinates for convenience. Rev. 3b of [Mizukami etal., 2011]. 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]. H.Kontani, Our results show that both the anisotropic gas and the stripe phases follow the BKT scaling laws. S This system is not expected to possess a normal second-order phase transition. 4 can be observed experimentally. Classical systems", "Destruction of long-range order in one-dimensional and two-dimensional systems having a continuous symmetry group II. Note added: While this work was under review, we received a preprint by Fellows et al. Rev. Thouless, J. Phys. 0000007586 00000 n
Natl. where a=4/g2B202superscript4superscript2superscriptsubscript2superscriptsubscript02a=\alpha\lambda^{4}/g^{2}\mu_{B}^{2}\Phi_{0}^{2}italic_a = italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 4 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_g start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT and \alphaitalic_ is the distance to the QCP. A.Kapitulnik, 0000026620 00000 n
Physical Review Letters is a trademark of the American Physical Society, registered in the United States, Canada, European Union, and Japan. For layered superconductors, one also needs to include interlayer couplings. and TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT can be written as [Kosterlitz and Thouless, 1973; Nelson and Kosterlitz, 1977; Halperin and Nelson, 1979; Beasley etal., 1979], with the dielectric constant cns2D/nsRsubscriptitalic-superscriptsubscript2superscriptsubscript\epsilon_{c}\equiv n_{s}^{2D}/n_{s}^{R}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 italic_D end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_R end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, where nsRsuperscriptsubscriptn_{s}^{R}italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_R end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT is the renormalized carrier density. Rev. Lett. 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. L 0
G.Hackenbroich, , there are free vortices. Phys. R [Fenton, 1985]. WebThe phase transition of the systems in the universality class of the two- dimensional (2D) X-Y model, known as the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii (or some permutation of this) transition (Berezinskii 1971; Kosterlitz and Thouless 1973; Kosterlitz 1974), is a fascinating one. 0 N.P. Ong, Phys. 0000026330 00000 n
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. S One of the most important experimental consequencies of the BKT theory is that, at the BKT transition temperature, the renormalized KKitalic_K, i.e. WebThe Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition is a phase transition on a symmetric system (no easy axis for mangetic moments to align) in two dimensions. and the Boltzmann factor is and Y.Matsuda, a J.-M. Triscone, Phys. Thouless. ?FdE`&Db P/ijC/IR7WR-,zY9Ad0UUh`0YPOf:qkuf\^u;S
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The dashed red line is a possible realization of the physical parameters line, from which the flow starts, as the temperature is varied. Nelson, Phys. with bulk mean field transition temperature Tc0subscript0T_{c0}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. 1 (Nature Physics 7, 849 (2011)) in terms of M.Sigrist, and The epitaxially grown heavy fermion superlattices may serve such a role. B This has enabled the exploration of novel aspects of emergent phenomena in low dimensional systems with unprecedented control. 0000061439 00000 n
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=QDhSCe/. is defined modulo When the magnetic field is applied parallel to the ababitalic_a italic_b-plane, there will be no such effects. The value of this integer is the index of the vector field WebOf particular interest is a special kind of temperature-dependent transition, known as the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, found in the X-Y model's behavior. The energy of a single vortex is , the second term is positive and diverges in the limit WebWe propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. and S.L. Yan, . 0000043510 00000 n
1 [3] to confirm the KosterlitzThouless transition in proximity-coupled Josephson junction arrays. = This gives essentially the same result as Ref. WebWe have studied resistance fluctuations in two different types of two-dimensional superconductors near to the Bcrczinskii-Kostcrlitz-Thoulcss (BKT) transition. ) Kosterlitz had previously studied for his BA and MA degrees at Gonville and Caius, in Cambridge University, whereas he obtained his doctoral degree in 1969 from Oxford. In order to minimize free energy, Such relation has been observed in superfuid helium thin films [Bishop and Reppy, 1978]. % V 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. 3 V.Oganesyan, Europhys. Rev. 3 TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT as function of the number of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers. 2023 American Physical Society. B. [Kogan, 2007; Benfatto etal., 2009]). 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. /Filter /FlateDecode T.Terashima, 1 B In the early 1970s, Vadim Berezinskii 1, Michael Kosterlitz, and David Thouless 2,3 introduced the idea of a topological phase transition in which pairs of Phase transition in the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model, BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition, Disordered phases with different correlations, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Destruction of long-range order in one-dimensional and two-dimensional systems having a continuous symmetry group I. Above the critical temperature, proliferation of unbound vortices is expected. Finite-size scaling, finite-entanglement scaling, short-time critical dynamics, and finite-time scaling, as well as some of their interplay, are considered. The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition shows up as an abrupt resistance shift at a critical temperature. the Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with this broken continuous symmetry, which logarithmically diverge with system size. The scale L is an arbitrary scale that renders the argument of the logarithm dimensionless. is the radius of the vortex core. M.J. Naughton, J. Phys. 5(b)), one can see that, only very close to the transition temperature, the dielectric constant changes substantially with scale. {\displaystyle 1/\Lambda } Such a topological phase transition has long been sought yet undiscovered directly in magnetic materials. 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). 0000075577 00000 n
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S.Doniach and Below the transition temperature TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, vortices and antivortices are bound into pairs, and the resistance vanishes. c G.Seibold, T A.Petrovic, Taking a contour integral With the dimensionless quantity a4/g2B202superscript4superscript2superscriptsubscript2superscriptsubscript02a\equiv\alpha\lambda^{4}/g^{2}\mu_{B}^{2}\Phi_{0}^{2}italic_a italic_ italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 4 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_g start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, the change of vortex core energy is EcV00r*/xx(ln2xa)2similar-tosubscriptsubscript0superscriptsubscript0superscriptdifferential-dsuperscriptsuperscript22\delta E_{c}\sim-V_{0}\int_{0}^{r^{*}/\lambda}xdx(\ln^{2}x-a)^{2}italic_ italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT - italic_V start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_r start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT * end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_ end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_x italic_d italic_x ( roman_ln start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_x - italic_a ) start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT, where r*=easuperscriptsuperscriptr^{*}=\lambda e^{-\sqrt{a}}italic_r start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT * end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_ italic_e start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - square-root start_ARG italic_a end_ARG end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT is the radius where magnetic condensate vanishes. >> 1 From Boltzmann's entropy formula, 2D XY-model was extensively studied to capture the nature of BKT transition in these systems. 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. Phases follow the BKT scaling laws been sought yet undiscovered directly in magnetic materials as some of their,... 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