Superconductor-Insulator Magneto-Oscillations in Superconducting Strips

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2010-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/1010.0664v2

Phys. Rev. B 83, 220518(R) (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages + a bit (4 in the journal), 1 figure. This is the published version (appeared as Editor's Suggestion, June 30 2011)

Scientific paper

The magnetoresistance of thin superconducting strips subject to a perpendicular magnetic field B and low temperatures T manifests a sequence of alternating superconductor-insulator transitions (SIT). We study this phenomenon within a quasi one-dimensional (1D) model for the quantum dynamics of vortices in a line-junction between coupled parallel SC wires, at parameters close to their SIT. Mapping the vortex system to 1D Fermions at a chemical potential dictated by B, we find that a quantum phase transition of the Ising type occurs at critical values of the vortex filling, from a SC phase near integer filling to an insulator near 1/2-filling. For T->0, the resulting magnetoresistance R(B) exhibits oscillations similar to the experimental observation.

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