Dynamical Conductivity Across The Disorder-Tuned Superconductor-Insulator Transition
arXiv:1310.1073 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021007
Abstract
A quantum phase transition is a dramatic event marked by large spatial and temporal fluctuations, where one phase of matter with its ground state and tower of excitations reorganizes into a completely different phase. We provide new insight into the disorder-driven superconductor-insulator transition (SIT) in two dimensions, a problem of great theoretical and experimental interest, with the dynamical conductivity σ(ω) and the bosonic (pair) spectral function P(ω) calculated from quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We identify characteristic energy scales in the superconducting and insulating phases that vanish at the transition due to enhanced quantum fluctuations, despite the persistence of a robust fermionic gap across the SIT. Disorder leads to enhanced absorption in σ(ω) at low frequencies compared to the SIT in a clean system. Disorder also expands the quantum critical region, due to a change in the universality class, with an underlying T=0 critical point with a finite low-frequency conductivity.
7 pages, 8 figures
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