Thermal Phase Transition in Two-Dimensional Disordered Superconductors: Kosterlitz-Thouless vs Percolation

Abstract

Weakly disordered two-dimensional superconductors undergo a Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition, where at a critical temperature vortices proliferate through the system and destroy the superconducting (SC) order. On the other hand, it was suggested that for large disorder the systems separates into regions of high SC order, and it is the percolation of coherence between these regions that is lost at the critical temperature. Here we demonstrate that these two descriptions are just the dual of each other. A vortex causes loss of local correlations, and thus the loss of percolation of correlations is concomitant with percolation of vortices on the dual lattice, in the perpendicular direction, i.e. the KT transition.

4 pages, 5 figures

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