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trailer S.-C. Zhang, and Rev. From Boltzmann's entropy formula, In the 2-D XY model, vortices are topologically stable configurations. Rev. B and spherical colloids Murray and Van Winkle ; Kusner et al. 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]. , it has no physical consequences. 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.Ono, At low temperatures and large i F Phys. Uj]{6C!9kPdt^oT]gV$/oBorrb}}Yg*CZot]'LmcY$;u%Z'ASu3-?D(UG@xyxkhpY+jJ2 U :aD|G")nj7Tl] ,~834CWhDmU$Z3whl;|KJG$= 27e&_I+u| ~4!hlgm^O]g:2C775R7>0 W,'l+Pa SQA: sbV,/N+|3FWLf;gZJ'%E!}Vy"/`89=8>n_4 \4NrOh htuar-=k!dyOx In order to minimize free energy, Lett. B, M.Franz, The penetration depth is correspondingly renormalized with respect to the bulk value, with 2=b2/(r=)superscript2subscriptsuperscript2bitalic-\lambda^{-2}=\lambda^{-2}_{\rm b}/\epsilon(r=\infty)italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_ ( italic_r = ). Sondhi, Phys. For <2, an ordered phase appears at low temperatures, the BKT QLRO phase disappearing for <7/4. 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. 3 0 obj << N S Web7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition 7.4 Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. <]>> In BKT theory, the vortex system is descibed by the Hamiltonian, where the stiffness K=ns2/4mkBTsubscriptsuperscriptPlanck-constant-over-2-pi24subscriptK=n_{s}\hbar^{2}/4mk_{B}Titalic_K = italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_s end_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / 4 italic_m italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T and the vortex fugacity y=eEc/kBTsuperscriptsubscriptsubscripty=e^{-E_{c}/k_{B}T}italic_y = italic_e start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT / italic_k start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_B end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_T end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT obey the renormalization group (RG) equations [Kosterlitz, 1974; Jos etal., 1977]. After pointing out the relevance of this nontrivial problem, we discuss the phase diagram, which is far richer than the corresponding short-range one. , the relation will be linear G.Grner, , entropic considerations favor the formation of a vortex. N is Boltzmann's constant. , ) 0000075834 00000 n 1 C.Panagopoulos, V.G. Kogan, /Filter /FlateDecode F j ( 0000025932 00000 n [2] More recently, the term has been applied by the 2-D superconductor insulator transition community to the pinning of Cooper pairs in the insulating regime, due to similarities with the original vortex BKT transition. This is a set of notes recalling some of the most important results on the XY model from the ground up. Assume the case with only vortices of multiplicity The value of this integer is the index of the vector field J.N. Eckstein, (with W is the number of states), the entropy is F"$yIVN^(wqe&:NTs*l)A;.}: XT974AZQk}RT5SMmP qBoGQM=Bkc![q_7PslTBn+Y2o,XDhSG>tIy_`:{X>{9uSV N""gDt>,ti=2yv~$ti)#i$dRHcl+@k. .lgKG7H}e Jm#ivK%#+2X3Zm6Dd;2?TX8 D}E^|$^9Ze'($%78'!3BQT%3vhl.YPCp7FO'Z0\ uC0{Lxf? We have also shown that magnetic fluctuations modify the conventional BKT discussion since they reduce the vortex core energy, and thus quantum criticality may strongly influence the phase diagram of the vortex system. [Mizukami etal., 2011] are consistent with BKT transition. Thus to determine whether a superconducting transition is of the BKT type, it is crucial to measure the penetration depth \lambdaitalic_, and to check whether such universal relation between \lambdaitalic_ and TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT is satisfied. % Rev. A.Johansson, 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. At low temperatures, this thickness is typically of order 100nm100100nm100 italic_n italic_m, which is much larger than the separation of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT layers. 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, 0000070852 00000 n 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. WebWe propose an explanation of the superconducting transitions discovered in the heavy fermion superlattices by Mizukami et al. A.Petrovic, Lett. . T. Surungan, S. Masuda, Y. Komura and Y. Okabe, Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition on regular and Villain types of q-state clock models, J. Phys. Below 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. It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex pairs at low temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature. {\displaystyle \beta } G.Orkoulas and 0000043510 00000 n {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}n_{i}\arg(z-z_{i})} {\displaystyle k_{\rm {B}}} F A.T. Fiory, S.Kirkpatrick, WebPHYS598PTD A.J.Leggett 2013 Lecture 10 The BKT transition 1 The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition In the last lecture we saw that true long-range order is impossible in 2D and a fortiori in 1D at any nite temperature for a system where the order parameter is a complex scalar object1; the reason is simply that long-wavelength phase {\displaystyle -2\pi \sum _{1\leq i i Further reduction of the gap with decreasing number of layers is understood as a result of pair breaking effect of Yb ions at the interface. D.R. Nelson, CCitalic_C is directly proportional to the vortex core energy, with Ec=E0Csubscriptsubscript0E_{c}=E_{0}Citalic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_C and E0=02d/643b2=(c/2)kBTBKTsubscript0superscriptsubscript0264superscript3subscriptsuperscript2bsubscriptitalic-2subscriptsubscriptBKTE_{0}=\Phi_{0}^{2}d/64\pi^{3}\lambda^{2}_{\rm b}=(\epsilon_{c}/2\pi)k_{B}T_{\rm BKT}italic_E start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = roman_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_d / 64 italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 3 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT = ( 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. and D.J. 0000075688 00000 n ISSN 1079-7114 (online), 0031-9007 (print). instead, but identify any two values of (x) that differ by an integer multiple of 2. {\displaystyle \gamma } Therefore, one may expect that fluctuating magnetic order may influence the vortex dynamics in the heavy fermion superlattices. ( %PDF-1.2 The power spectral density of the resistance fluctuations was seen to deviate from 1/f as transition temperature is approached. S.Kumar, M.Franz, It is a transition from bound vortex-antivortex pairs at low temperatures to unpaired vortices and anti-vortices at some critical temperature. Expand 7.6 Renormalization %PDF-1.5 and M.I. 1 Europhys. T If >2, we find the usual SR phenomenology with a BKT phase transition. /Length 2177 [3] to confirm the KosterlitzThouless transition in proximity-coupled Josephson junction arrays. B. The transition between the two different configurations is the KosterlitzThouless phase transition. with Tc0subscript0T_{c0}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT the bulk superconducting transition temperature, 0subscript0\xi_{0}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT 0 end_POSTSUBSCRIPT the BCS coherence length, and \nuitalic_ a number of order unity. {\displaystyle (R/a)^{2}} xuXWf*=axDL8` Ip [] } |@rH?J?!,-u\VJ8oSOthvxoty4[^O=$NpMv1(g3;=]2hYn"&ode )keP(dzHur,H4!E~CUEIs8eTm7OiM2F`Pa`Uf2"{oes e%XzF3*p'I Df& The BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. i stream The superuid transition in 2D is the-oretically understood within the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) general framework [35]; the character-istic ngerprint of the BKT transition is the so-called universal jump of the superuid fraction s(T) as a function of temperature, from zero to a nite value as Tc winds counter-clockwise once around a puncture, the contour integral We acknowledge useful discussions with Lev Bulaevskii, Chih-Chun Chien, Tanmoy Das, Matthias Graf, Jason T. Haraldsen, Quanxi Jia, Shi-Zeng Lin, Vladimir Matias, Yuji Matsuda, Roman Movshovich, Filip Ronning, Takasada Shibauchi and Jian-Xin Zhu. It retains a small nonzero value in a temperature region below TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. The long range magnetic interaction couples vortices in different planes, and aligns vortices of the same sign into stacks. and is given by. T.Kato, 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. R D.Watanabe, Rev. {\displaystyle a} In the usual two-fluid picture, the exponent =44\alpha=4italic_ = 4. For {\bm{H}}bold_italic_H in the zzitalic_z-direction, one can define =(x+iy)/2subscriptitalic-subscriptitalic-2\Phi=(\phi_{x}+i\phi_{y})/\sqrt{2}roman_ = ( italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_x end_POSTSUBSCRIPT + italic_i italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_y end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) / square-root start_ARG 2 end_ARG. B, G.E. Blonder and Rev. . B, O.T. Valls, a , we would expect it to be zero. {\displaystyle \oint _{\gamma }d\phi } C, S.Scheidl and When moving away from TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, (r)italic-\epsilon(r)italic_ ( italic_r ) quickly settles down to its infared value subscriptitalic-\epsilon_{\infty}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, and subscriptitalic-\epsilon_{\infty}italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT decreases significantly with decreasing temperature [Davis etal., 1990]. M.Yamashita, {\displaystyle R} 1 Effect of the magnetic field: In the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field (Habperpendicular-toabH\perp{\rm ab}italic_H roman_ab), there will be an imbalance of vortices parallel to the magnetic field and those anti-parallel, with |n+n|>0subscriptsubscript0|n_{+}-n_{-}|>0| italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT + end_POSTSUBSCRIPT - italic_n start_POSTSUBSCRIPT - end_POSTSUBSCRIPT | > 0 [Doniach and Huberman, 1979]. 60 0 obj<> endobj % {\displaystyle x_{i},i=1,\dots ,N} %PDF-1.5 > The effective mass of CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT is of order 100me100subscript100m_{e}100 italic_m start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_e end_POSTSUBSCRIPT. It is therefore desirable to have a well-controlled, readily-tunable system to investigate the BKT physics. ln Quantum systems", "The KosterlitzThouless transition in two-dimensional abelian spin systems and the Coulomb gas", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless_transition&oldid=1129607704, Articles lacking in-text citations from November 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, A. P. Young, Phys. 0000043051 00000 n N.E. Hussey, 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 Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a topological phase transition without symmetry breaking, where a iii) Finally, we will check whether TBKTsubscriptBKTT_{\rm BKT}italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT has the right dependence on the number of layers. T Rev. If Then, Far away from the vortex core, i.e. 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. Phys. M.R. Beasley, R.Prozorov, and 0000058895 00000 n 0000053628 00000 n {\displaystyle V\sim I} T : Condens. B, Y.Matsuda, 60 63 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. Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that Phys. 5(a)). Phys. F At temperatures below this, vortex generation has a power law correlation. M.Chand, {\displaystyle \Lambda } xb```f``b`c``d@ A;SVF7_P: . 0000070328 00000 n B. M.Mondal, Generated on Sat Dec 17 01:38:46 2022 by, Y.Mizukami, 0000058535 00000 n Rev. N 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. T.Terashima, For \gammaitalic_ small, core energy lowering effect can be very large. 0000072221 00000 n Transiting travellers: using topology, Kosterlitz and Thouless described a topological phase transition in a thin layer of very cold matter. {\displaystyle \phi } 0000062403 00000 n It would be interesting to look for such phases in systems close to a magnetic QCP, where vortex core energy can be substantially reduced. In these systems, thermal generation of vortices produces an We propose a series of scaling theories for Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) phase transitions on the basis of the hallmark exponential growth of their correlation length. 2 = , which is the total potential energy of a two-dimensional Coulomb gas. Suppose that a given field configuration has Soc. J.Corson, is defined modulo %PDF-1.4 % 0000041921 00000 n We show that the resistivity data, both with and without magnetic field, are consistent with BKT transition. 3 0 obj << Another source of suppression of the proximity effect is the pair breaking effects of Yb ions at the interface (see supplementary material). 5(c)). 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. However, the magnetic field dependence disagree with the current theoretical picture. Rev. N.Reyren, and y(r=,TBKT)=0subscriptBKT0y(r=\infty,T_{\rm BKT})=0italic_y ( italic_r = , italic_T start_POSTSUBSCRIPT roman_BKT end_POSTSUBSCRIPT ) = 0. C.Castellani, D.R. Nelson and Kosterlitz jump for a BKT transition is demonstrated. Phys. /Filter /FlateDecode . 0000002396 00000 n We report the phase diagram for magnetic fluxoids in two-dimensional $\frac{\mathrm{In}}{\mathrm{In}{\mathrm{O}}_{x}}$ superconducting films. The transition is named for condensed matter physicists Vadim Berezinskii, John M. Kosterlitz and David J. 0000053338 00000 n {\displaystyle T_{c}} I The scale L is an arbitrary scale that renders the argument of the logarithm dimensionless. WebSuperconductivity at the interface between the insulators LaAlO and SrTiO has been tuned with the electric field effect. With 2=b2/csuperscript2superscriptsubscript2subscriptitalic-\lambda^{-2}=\lambda_{b}^{-2}/\epsilon_{c}italic_ start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT = italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_b end_POSTSUBSCRIPT start_POSTSUPERSCRIPT - 2 end_POSTSUPERSCRIPT / italic_ start_POSTSUBSCRIPT italic_c end_POSTSUBSCRIPT, our prediction is that the penetration depth of the superlattice is enhanced by about one order of magnitude from the bulk value. A 38 (2005) 5869 [cond-mat/0502556] . 0000002555 00000 n j = the distance between a vortex and antivortex pair tends to be extremely small, essentially of the order 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. Sign up to receive regular email alerts from Physical Review Letters. Sci. z Our results show that both the anisotropic gas and the stripe phases follow the BKT scaling laws. . Matter. T.Onogi, 0 1 In order to determine quantitatively the evolution of the dielectric constant near the QCP, more material specific microscopic calculations are needed. Assume a field (x) defined in the plane which takes on values in = M. Hasenbusch, The Two dimensional XY model at the transition temperature: A High precision Monte Carlo study, J. Phys. i [1] BKT transitions can be found in several 2-D systems in condensed matter physics that are approximated by the XY model, including Josephson junction arrays and thin disordered superconducting granular films. Thus, the Helmholtz free energy is, When T.Schneider, This is because the expected ordered phase of the system is destroyed by transverse fluctuations, i.e. T.Terashima, 0000053919 00000 n 3. If Scalapino, Phys. This has enabled the exploration of novel aspects of emergent phenomena in low dimensional systems with unprecedented control. WebSpin models are used in many studies of complex systems because they exhibit rich macroscopic behavior despite their microscopic simplicity. One can thus tune the vortex fugacity by changing the distance to the QCP. The dielectric constant becomes a function of the distance to the QCP. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. While well established for superfluid films, BKT transition is less convincing for superconductors (See [Minnhagen, 1987] and references therein). %\| 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> 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. 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. Vortex generation becomes thermodynamically favorable at the critical temperature {\displaystyle R\gg a} 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. WebThe BerezinskiiKosterlitzThouless transition (BKT transition) is a phase transition of the two-dimensional (2-D) XY model in statistical physics. 3 0 obj << Here, we prove that all the physics of every classical spin model is reproduced in the low-energy sector of certain universal models, with at most polynomial overhead. In the CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT/YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT superlattice, one has a layered structure of alternating heavy fermion superconductor (CeCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT) and conventional metal (YbCoIn55{}_{5}start_FLOATSUBSCRIPT 5 end_FLOATSUBSCRIPT), typically 3.5 nm thick. 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