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Fluctuation Conductivity in Insulator-Superconductor Transitions with Dissipation

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We analyze here the fluctuation conductivity in the vicinity of the critical point in a 2D Josephson junction array shunted by an Ohmic resistor.We find that at the Gaussian level, the conductivity acquires a logarithmic dependence on T/(TTc)T/(T-T_c) when the dissipation is sufficiently small. In the renormalized classical regime, this logarithmic dependence gives rise to a leveling-off of the resistivity at low to intermediate temperatures when fluctuations are included. We show, however, that this trend does not persist to T=0 at which point the resistivity vanishes. The possible relationship of the leveling of the resistivity to the low temperature transport in granlar superconductors is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9907123,
  title  = {Fluctuation Conductivity in Insulator-Superconductor Transitions with Dissipation},
  author = {Denis Dalidovich and Philip Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9907123},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages