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Based on experimental results and our previous theoretical work, a microscopic theory of high temperature superconductivity is conjectured. In this conjecture, superconducting and antiferromagnetic long-range orders are driven by interlayer…
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We study the finite temperature phase transition in 2+1 dimensional compact QED and its dual theory: Josephson junction. Duality of these theories at zero temperature was established long time ago by Hosotani. Phase transition in compact…
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We consider a symmetric 0-pi Josephson junction of length $L$, which classically can be in one of two degenerate ground states up or down, corresponding to supercurrents circulating clockwise or counterclockwise around the 0-pi boundary.…
An Aluminum nanowire switches from superconducting to normal as the current is increased in an upsweep. The switching current (I_s) averaged over upsweeps approximately follows the depairing critical current (I_c) but falls below it.…
The tunnel junction between tip and sample in a scanning tunneling microscope is an ideal platform to access the local density of states in the sample through the differential conductance. We show that the energy resolution that can be…
We study the low-temperature critical behavior of the one-dimensional Hubbard model near half filling caused by enhanced antiferromagnetic fluctuations. We use a mean-field-type approximation with a two-particle self-consistency…
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