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Universal critical exponent in class D superconductors

  • Victor Kagalovsky
  • , Demitry Nemirovsky

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Abstract

We study a physical system consisting of noninteracting quasiparticles in disordered superconductors that have neither time-reversal nor spin-rotation invariance. This system belongs to class D within the recent classification scheme of random matrix ensembles, and its phase diagram contains three different phases: metallic and two distinct localized phases with different quantized thermal Hall conductances. We find that critical exponents describing different transitions (insulator-to-insulator and insulator-to-metal) are identical within the error of numerical calculations and also find that critical disorder of the insulator-to-metal transition is energy-independent.

Original languageEnglish
Article number127001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume101
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Sep 2008
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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