Field-induced superconductor to insulator transition in Josephson-junction ladders

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2005-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509800v1

Phys. Rev. B 72, 104521 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

5 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.104521

The superconductor to insulator transition is studied in a self-charging model for a ladder of Josephson-junctions in presence of an external magnetic field. Path integral Monte Carlo simulations of the equivalent (1+1)-dimensional classical model are used to study the phase diagram and critical behavior. In addition to a superconducting (vortex-free) phase, a vortex phase can also occur for increasing magnetic field and small charging energy. It is found that an intervening insulating phase separates the superconducting from the vortex phases. Surprisingly, a finite-size scaling analysis shows that the field-induced superconducting to insulator transition is in the KT universality class even tough the external field breaks time-reversal symmetry.

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