Sharpness of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in disordered NbN films

A Weitzel, L Pfaffinger, I Maccari, K Kronfeldner… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present a comprehensive investigation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
in ultrathin strongly disordered NbN films. Measurements of resistance, current-voltage …

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions with long-range couplings

G Giachetti, N Defenu, S Ruffo, A Trombettoni - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is the paradigmatic example of a
topological phase transition without symmetry breaking, where a quasiordered phase …

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in classical and quantum long-range systems

G Giachetti, A Trombettoni, S Ruffo, N Defenu - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In the past decades, considerable efforts have been made to understand the critical features
of both classical and quantum long-range (LR) interacting models. The case of the …

Comprehensive phase diagram of two-dimensional space charge doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x

E Sterpetti, J Biscaras, A Erb, A Shukla - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The phase diagram of hole-doped high critical temperature superconductors as a function of
doping and temperature has been intensively studied with chemical variation of doping …

Effective two-dimensional thickness for the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless-like transition in a highly underdoped

PG Baity, X Shi, Z Shi, L Benfatto, D Popović - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The nature of the superconducting transition in highly underdoped thick films of La 2− x Sr x
CuO 4 (x= 0.07 and 0.08) has been investigated using the in-plane transport measurements …

Nanomechanics of low-dimensional materials for functional applications

S Fan, X Feng, Y Han, Z Fan, Y Lu - Nanoscale Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
When materials' characteristic dimensions are reduced to the nanoscale regime, their
mechanical properties will vary significantly to that of their bulk counterparts. Recently low …

Robustness of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in ultrathin NbN films near the superconductor-insulator transition

J Yong, TR Lemberger, L Benfatto, K Ilin… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
Occurrence of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition is investigated by
superfluid density measurements for two-dimensional (2D) disordered NbN films with …

Interplay of spin waves and vortices in the two-dimensional XY model at small vortex-core energy

I Maccari, N Defenu, L Benfatto, C Castellani, T Enss - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) mechanism describes universal vortex unbinding
in many two-dimensional systems, including the paradigmatic XY model. However, most of …

Broadening of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition by correlated disorder

I Maccari, L Benfatto, C Castellani - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in two-dimensional superconductors is
usually expected to be protected against disorder. However, its fingerprints in a real system …

Suppression of superfluid phase stiffness in Bi2Sr2Ca1− xCexCu2O8+ δ

S Haldar, AK Ghosh - Solid State Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Nonlinearity of IV characteristics below the transition temperature T c gets strongly affected
by the coupling channels between the superconducting planes in highly anisotropic …