Theoretical Studies of Superconductor-Insulator Transitions

Abstract

In this article we study superconductor-insulator transitions within the general framework of an attractive Hubbard model. This is a well-defined model of s-wave superconductivity which permits different tuning parameters (disorder and field). Furthermore, it allows a comparison of various analytical and computational approaches in order to gain a complete understanding of the various effects of amplitude and phase fluctuations. We present a systematic pedagogical approach, aiming to equip the lay reader with enough apparatus to be able to understand the numerical calculations, reproduce some of the simpler results, and be able to tackle future problems related to inhomogeneous phases. We go into considerable detail on mean-field theory (MFT) and the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) approach, as these are a first line of attack which can capture much of the physics, but we also outline cases where this fails to capture phase fluctuations and more sophisticated Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations are necessary. We discuss the behavior of many observables, including densities of states, superfluid stiffness, and dynamical conductivity, for the disorder-tuned superconductor-insulator transition. We also discuss SITs tuned by parallel magnetic field, which are quite different due to pairbreaking.

63 pages; chapter from book following Conductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions (CIQPT) conference at The Ohio State University from Jan 9-11, 2008 "Theoretical Studies of Superconductor-Insulator Transitions," chapter 17, pp. 492-548, in "Conductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions" (ed. V. Dobrosavljević, N. Trivedi, and J. M. Valles, Jr.), Oxford University Press (2012)

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