Universal critical exponent in class D superconductors
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-13 v2
Abstract
We study a physical system consisting of non-interacting quasiparticles in disordered superconductors that have neither time-reversal nor spin-rotation invariance. This system belongs to class D within the recent classification scheme of random matrix ensembles (RME) and its phase diagram contains three different phases: metallic and two distinct localized phases with different quantized thermal Hall conductances. We find that critical exponents describing different transitions (insulator-to-insulator and insulator-to-metal) are identical within the error of numerical calculations and also find that critical disorder of the insulator-to-metal transition is energy independent.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.2744,
title = {Universal critical exponent in class D superconductors},
author = {Victor Kagalovsky and Demitry Nemirovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2744},
year = {2009}
}
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3.5 pages 4 figures