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Bosonic topological insulator intermediate state in the superconductor-insulator transition. / Diamantini, M. C.; Mironov, A. Yu; Postolova, S. M. et al.
In: Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, Vol. 384, No. 23, 126570, 17.08.2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Bosonic topological insulator intermediate state in the superconductor-insulator transition
AU - Diamantini, M. C.
AU - Mironov, A. Yu
AU - Postolova, S. M.
AU - Liu, X.
AU - Hao, Z.
AU - Silevitch, D. M.
AU - Kopelevich, Ya
AU - Kim, P.
AU - Trugenberger, C. A.
AU - Vinokur, V. M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/8/17
Y1 - 2020/8/17
N2 - A low-temperature intervening metallic regime arising in the two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition challenges our understanding of electronic fluids. Here we develop a gauge theory revealing that this emergent anomalous metal is a bosonic topological insulator where bulk transport is suppressed by mutual statistics interactions between out-of-condensate Cooper pairs and vortices and the longitudinal conductivity is mediated by symmetry-protected gapless edge modes. We explore the magnetic-field-driven superconductor-insulator transition in a niobium titanium nitride device and find marked signatures of a bosonic topological insulator behavior of the intervening regime with the saturating resistance. The observed superconductor-anomalous metal and insulator-anomalous metal dual phase transitions exhibit quantum Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless criticality in accord with the gauge theory.
AB - A low-temperature intervening metallic regime arising in the two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition challenges our understanding of electronic fluids. Here we develop a gauge theory revealing that this emergent anomalous metal is a bosonic topological insulator where bulk transport is suppressed by mutual statistics interactions between out-of-condensate Cooper pairs and vortices and the longitudinal conductivity is mediated by symmetry-protected gapless edge modes. We explore the magnetic-field-driven superconductor-insulator transition in a niobium titanium nitride device and find marked signatures of a bosonic topological insulator behavior of the intervening regime with the saturating resistance. The observed superconductor-anomalous metal and insulator-anomalous metal dual phase transitions exhibit quantum Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless criticality in accord with the gauge theory.
KW - Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
KW - Bose metal
KW - Bosonic topological insulator
KW - Josephson junction arrays
KW - Quantum Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
KW - Superconductor-insulator transition
KW - SUPERINSULATOR
KW - PHASE-TRANSITIONS
KW - METAL
KW - ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION
KW - CHARGE
KW - ONSET
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084815510&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.physleta.2020.126570
DO - 10.1016/j.physleta.2020.126570
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084815510
VL - 384
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
SN - 0375-9601
IS - 23
M1 - 126570
ER -
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