Scaling universality at the dynamic vortex Mott transition
Abstract
The cleanest way to observe a dynamic Mott insulator-to-metal transition (DMT) without the interference from disorder and other effects inherent to electronic and atomic systems, is to employ the vortex Mott states formed by superconducting vortices in a regular array of pinning sites. Here, we report the critical behavior of the vortex system as it crosses the DMT line, driven by either current or temperature. We find universal scaling with respect to both, expressed by the same scaling function and characterized by a single critical exponent coinciding with the exponent for the thermodynamic Mott transition. We develop a theory for the DMT based on the parity reflection-time reversal (PT) symmetry breaking formalism and find that the nonequilibrium-induced Mott transition has the same critical behavior as the thermal Mott transition. Our findings demonstrate the existence of physical systems in which the effect of a nonequilibrium drive is to generate an effective temperature and hence the transition belonging in the thermal universality class.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Twente, Enschede (Netherlands). MESA+ Inst. for Nanotechnology
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (India)
- Univ. of Twente, Enschede (Netherlands). MESA+ Inst. for Nanotechnology; Moscow Inst. of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Moscow (Russian Federation)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (India)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Novosibirsk State Univ. (Russian Federation); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain); A. V. Rzhanov Inst. of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk (Russian Federation)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Russian Science Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1425288
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Lankhorst, M., Poccia, N., Stehno, M. P., Galda, A., Barman, H., Coneri, F., Hilgenkamp, H., Brinkman, A., Golubov, A. A., Tripathi, V., Baturina, T. I., and Vinokur, V. M. Scaling universality at the dynamic vortex Mott transition. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.020504.
Lankhorst, M., Poccia, N., Stehno, M. P., Galda, A., Barman, H., Coneri, F., Hilgenkamp, H., Brinkman, A., Golubov, A. A., Tripathi, V., Baturina, T. I., & Vinokur, V. M. Scaling universality at the dynamic vortex Mott transition. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.020504
Lankhorst, M., Poccia, N., Stehno, M. P., Galda, A., Barman, H., Coneri, F., Hilgenkamp, H., Brinkman, A., Golubov, A. A., Tripathi, V., Baturina, T. I., and Vinokur, V. M. Wed .
"Scaling universality at the dynamic vortex Mott transition". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.020504. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1425288.
@article{osti_1425288,
title = {Scaling universality at the dynamic vortex Mott transition},
author = {Lankhorst, M. and Poccia, N. and Stehno, M. P. and Galda, A. and Barman, H. and Coneri, F. and Hilgenkamp, H. and Brinkman, A. and Golubov, A. A. and Tripathi, V. and Baturina, T. I. and Vinokur, V. M.},
abstractNote = {The cleanest way to observe a dynamic Mott insulator-to-metal transition (DMT) without the interference from disorder and other effects inherent to electronic and atomic systems, is to employ the vortex Mott states formed by superconducting vortices in a regular array of pinning sites. Here, we report the critical behavior of the vortex system as it crosses the DMT line, driven by either current or temperature. We find universal scaling with respect to both, expressed by the same scaling function and characterized by a single critical exponent coinciding with the exponent for the thermodynamic Mott transition. We develop a theory for the DMT based on the parity reflection-time reversal (PT) symmetry breaking formalism and find that the nonequilibrium-induced Mott transition has the same critical behavior as the thermal Mott transition. Our findings demonstrate the existence of physical systems in which the effect of a nonequilibrium drive is to generate an effective temperature and hence the transition belonging in the thermal universality class.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.97.020504},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 2,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {1}
}
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