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Superconductor-insulator transition in Coulomb disorder

Superconductivity 2009-11-13 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Superconductor-insulator transition driven by the decreasing concentration of electrons nn is studied in the case of the disorder potential created by randomly positioned charged impurities. Electrons and Cooper pairs (formed by an non-Coulomb attraction) nonlinearly screen the random potential of impurities. Both electrons and Cooper pairs can be delocalized or localized in the resulting self-consistent potential. The border separating the superconductor and insulator phases in the plane of the concentration of electrons and the length of the Cooper pair is found. For a strong disorder the central segment of this border follows the BEC-BCS crossover line defined for a clean sample.

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@article{arxiv.0708.2516,
  title  = {Superconductor-insulator transition in Coulomb disorder},
  author = {B. I. Shklovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.2516},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4.5 pages, introduction rewritten, a dozen of references added, 2D case added