Confinement and asymptotic freedom with Cooper pairs

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

doi:10.1038/s42005-018-0073-9

Title: Confinement and asymptotic freedom with Cooper pairs

Journal Article · 06 November 2018 · Communications Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-018-0073-9 · OSTI ID:1493745

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

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

One of the most profound aspects of the standard model of particle physics, the mechanism of confinement binding quarks into hadrons, is not sufficiently understood. The only known semiclassical mechanism of confinement, mediated by chromo-electric strings in a condensate of magnetic monopoles still lacks experimental evidence. Here we show that the infinite resistance superinsulating state, which emerges on the insulating side of the superconductor insulator transition in superconducting films offers a realization of confinement that allows for a direct experimental access. We find that superinsulators realize a single-color version of quantum chromodynamics and establish the mapping of quarks onto Cooper pairs. We reveal that the mechanism of superinsulation is the linear binding of Cooper pairs into neutral “mesons” by electric strings. Here, our findings offer a powerful laboratory for exploring and testing the fundamental implications of confinement, asymptotic freedom, and related quantum chromodynamics phenomena via the desktop experiments on superconductors.

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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:: 1493745

Journal Information:: Communications Physics, Journal Name: Communications Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1; ISSN 2399-3650

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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