Quantum Hall plateau transitions in disordered superconductors

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作者
Kagalovsky, V [1 ]
Horovitz, B
Avishai, Y
Chalker, JT
机构
[1] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Phys, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel
[2] Technol Coll Beer Sheva, Sch Engn, IL-84100 Beer Sheva, Israel
[3] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3NP, England
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3516
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We study a delocalization transition for noninteracting quasiparticles moving in two dimensions, which belongs to a new symmetry class. This symmetry class can be realized in a dirty, gapless superconductor in which time-reversal symmetry for orbital motion is broken, but spin-rotation symmetry is intact. We find a direct transition between two insulating phases with quantized Hall conductances of zero and two for the conserved quasiparticles. The energy of the quasiparticles acts as a relevant symmetry-breaking field at the critical point, which splits the direct transition into two conventional plateau transitions.
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页码:3516 / 3519
页数:4
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