Sharp superconductor-insulator transition in short wires

Dganit Meidan, Yuval Oreg, Gil Refael

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Abstract

Recent experiments on short MoGe nanowires show a sharp superconducting-insulating transition at the universal resistance RQ=h/(4e2), contrary to the expectation of a smooth temperature dependence of the resistance for such Josephson-like systems. We present a self-consistent renormalization-group treatment of interacting quantum phase slips in short superconducting wires, which reproduces this sharp universal transition. Our method should also apply to other systems in the sine-Gordon universality class, in the previously inaccessible intermediate-coupling regime.

Original languageEnglish
Article number187001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume98
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2007
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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