Critical fixed points in class D superconductors

  • Victor Kagalovsky
  • , Demitry Nemirovsky

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Abstract

We study in detail a critical line on the phase diagram of the Cho-Fisher network model separating three different phases: metallic and two distinct localized phases with different quantized thermal Hall conductances. This system describes noninteracting quasiparticles in disordered superconductors that have neither time-reversal nor spin-rotational invariance. We find that in addition to a tricritical fixed point WT on the critical line, separating two localized phases, there exists an additional repulsive fixed point WN (where the vortex disorder concentration WN < WT), which splits RG flow into opposite directions: toward a clean Ising model at W=0 and toward WT.

Original languageEnglish
Article number033406
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume81
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jan 2010
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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