Thickness-tuned superconductor-insulator transitions under magnetic field in a -NbSi
Abstract
We have studied the thickness-induced superconductor-to-insulator transition in the presence of a magnetic field for a -NbSi thin films. Analyzing the critical behavior of this system within the “dirty boson model,” we have found a critical exponent product of νd ztilde 0.4 . The corresponding phase diagram in the (H,d) plane is inferred. This small exponent product, as well as the nonuniversal value of the critical resistance found at the transition, calls for further investigations in order to thoroughly understand these transitions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- October 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.144520
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0810.2321
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvB..78n4520M
- Keywords:
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- 74.25.-q;
- 74.40.+k;
- 71.30.+h;
- 64.60.-i;
- Properties of type I and type II superconductors;
- Fluctuations;
- Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions;
- General studies of phase transitions;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity;
- Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 7 figures, to be published in PRB