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Quasiperiodic systems offer an appealing intermediate between long-range ordered and genuine disordered systems, with unusual critical properties. One-dimensional models that break the so-called self-dual symmetry usually display a mobility…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-26 Hepeng Yao , Alice Khoudli , Léa Bresque , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Theory of quasiparticle transport in the mixed state of a d-wave superconductor is developed under the assumption of disordered vortex array. A novel universal regime is identified at fields above H*= c*H_{c2}(T/T_c)^2, characterized by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Franz

Spatial intensity correlations between waves transmitted through random media are analyzed within the framework of the random matrix theory of transport. Assuming that the statistical distribution of transfer matrices is isotropic, we found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gabriel Cwilich , Luis S. Froufe-Perez , Juan Jose Saenz

It has been shown that superconducting vortices with antiferromagnetic cores arise within Zhang's SO(5) model of high temperature supercondictivity. Similar phenomena where the symmetry is not restored in the core of the vortex was…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Kirk B. W. Buckley , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Coherent electron transport through a quantum channel in the presence of a general extended scattering potential is investigated using a T-matrix Lippmann-Schwinger approach. The formalism is applied to a quantum wire with Gaussian type…

We study the quasiparticle excitations around a single vortex in the superconducting topological insulator Cu$_{x}$Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$, focusing on a superconducting state with point nodes. Inspired by the recent Knight shift measurements, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-05-28 Yuki Nagai

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick

The vortex core structure in a d-wave superconductor is analyzed on the basis of the quasi-classical Eilenberger theory beyond the Ginzburg-Landau framework. The current and magnetic field distributions around an isolated vortex break…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Ichioka , N. Hayashi , N. Enomoto , K. Machida

We evaluate the low-temperature cutoff for quantum interference 1/tf induced in a d-wave superconductor by the diffusion enhanced quasiparticle interactions in the presence of disorder. We carry out our analysis in the framework of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-30 M. Bruno , A. Toschi , L. Dell'Anna , C. Castellani

We use a superspin Hamiltonian defined on an infinite-dimensional Fock space with positive definite scalar product to study localization and delocalization of noninteracting spinless quasiparticles in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-02 Andreas P. Schnyder , Christopher Mudry , Ilya A. Gruzberg

We investigate the quasiparticle spectrum of a d-wave superconductor in the mixed state, focussing on the effects of varying the in-plane angular alignment (or tilting) of the vortex and crystal lattices. Our approach starts with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-08-01 Michael A. Hermele , Luca Marinelli

Edge effects in the depinned phase of flux lines in hollow superconducting cylinder with columnar defects and electric current along the cylinder are investigated. Far from the ends of the cylinder vortices are distributed almost uniformly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov

Disordered superconducting materials with high kinetic inductance are an important resource to generate nonlinearity in quantum circuits and create high-impedance environments. In thin films fabricated from these materials, the combination…

The superconducting properties of a two-dimensional superconducting wire network with a new geometry have been measured as a function of the external magnetic field. The extreme localization effect recently predicted for this periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Pannetier , C. C. Abilio , E. Serret , Th. Fournier , P. Butaud , J. Vidal

The problem of d-wave quasiparticles in a weakly disordered Abrikosov vortex lattice is studied. Starting with a periodic lattice, the topological structure of the magnetic crystal momenta of gapless fermions is found for the particle-hole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-09 Oskar Vafek

A magnetic field applied to type-II superconductors introduces quantized vortices that locally quench superconductivity, providing a unique opportunity to investigate electronic orders that may compete with superconductivity. This is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-01 T. Machida , Y. Kohsaka , K. Matsuoka , K. Iwaya , T. Hanaguri , T. Tamegai

We demonstrate that a weak disorder in atomic positions introduces spatially localized optical modes in a dense three-dimensional ensemble of immobile two-level atoms arranged in a diamond lattice and coupled by the electromagnetic field.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-10-21 S. E. Skipetrov

We study a robust topological transport carried by vortices in a thin film of an easy-plane ferromagnetic insulator between two metal contacts. A vortex, which is a nonlocal topological spin texture in two-dimensional magnets, exhibits some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Ji Zou , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The present work deals with the study of d-wave superconductor in presence of a single vortex placed at the centre of the 2D lattice using the $t-t'-J$ model within the renormalized mean field theory. It is found that the in absence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-09 Sanjay Gupta

We calculate the average conductivity sigma (omega) of interacting electrons in one dimension in the presence of a long-range random potential (forward scattering disorder). Taking the curvature of the energy dispersion into account, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Kopietz , Guillermo E. Castilla