Quantum Hall plateau transitions in disordered superconductors

Details Quantum Hall plateau transitions in disordered superconductors Quantum Hall plateau transitions in disordered superconductors

1998-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9812155v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3516 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, Revtex with 3 embedded figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3516

We study a delocalization transition for non-interacting quasiparticles moving in two dimensions, which belongs to a new symmetry class. This symmetry class can be realised in a dirty, gapless superconductor in which time reversal symmetry for orbital motion is broken, but spin rotation symmetry is intact. We find a direct transition between two insulating phases with quantized Hall conductances of zero and two for the conserved quasiparticles. The energy of quasiparticles acts as a relevant, symmetry-breaking field at the critical point, which splits the direct transition into two conventional plateau transitions.

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