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Critical fixed points in class D superconductors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We study in detail a critical line on the phase diagram of the Cho-Fisher network model separating three different phases: metallic and two distinct localized phases with different quantized thermal Hall conductances. This system describes non-interacting quasiparticles in disordered superconductors that have neither time-reversal nor spin-rotational invariance. We find that in addition to a tricritical fixed point WTW_T on that critical line there exist an additional repulsive fixed point WNW_N (where the vortex disorder concentration WN<WTW_N<W_T), which splits RG flow into opposite directions: toward a clean Ising model at W=0 and toward WTW_T.

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@article{arxiv.0906.4440,
  title  = {Critical fixed points in class D superconductors},
  author = {Victor Kagalovsky and Demitry Nemirovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4440},
  year   = {2015}
}

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3 pages, one figure

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