Vogel-Fulcher-Tamman criticality of 3D superinsulators

Diamantini, M. C.; Gammaitoni, L.; Trugenberger, C. A.; Vinokur, V. M.

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-33765-5

Title: Vogel-Fulcher-Tamman criticality of 3D superinsulators

Journal Article · 23 October 2018 · Scientific Reports

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33765-5 · OSTI ID:1481282

Diamantini, M. C. ^[1];

^[1]; Trugenberger, C. A. ^[2];

^[3]

Univ. of Perugia, Perugia (Italy)
SwissScientific Technologies SA, Geneva (Switzerland)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

It has been believed that the superinsulating state, which is the low-temperature charge Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase, can exist only in two dimensions. We develop a general gauge description of the superinsulating state and the related deconfinement transition of Cooper pairs and predict the existence of the superinsulating state in three dimensions (3d). We find that 3d superinsulators exhibit Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann (VFT) critical behavior at the phase transition. This is the 3d string analog of the Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) criticality for logarithmically and linearly interacting point particles in 2d. Lastly, our results show that singular exponential scaling behaviors of the BKT type are generic for phase transitions associated with the condensation of topological excitations.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1481282

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 8; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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