QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS AND SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR TRANSITION    

 

Recent Publications

 

1.       Approach to a superconductor-to-Bose-insulator transition in disordered films, M.A. Steiner, Nicholas Breznay, and Aharon Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. B 77, 212501 (2008),  cond-mat/0406232.

 

2.       Possible field-tuned SIT in high-Tc superconductors: implications for  pairing at high magnetic fields, M.A. Steiner, G. Boebinger, and A. Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 107008 (2005),  cond-mat/0406232.

 

3.       Superconductivity in the insulating phase above the field-tuned  superconductor-insulator transition in disordered indium oxide films, Myles Steiner and Aharon Kapitulnik, Physica C 422, 16-26 (2005), cond-mat/0406227.

 

4.       Superconductor-Insulator transitions in a capacitively coupled dissipative environment, N. Mason and A. Kapitulnik, Physical Review B 65, 220505 (2002), cond-mat/0111179.

 

5.       True superconductivity in a two-dimensional superconducting-insulating system, N. Mason and A. Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. B 64, 60504 (2001), cond-mat/0006138.

 

6.       Effects of dissipation on quantum phase transitions, A. Kapitulnik, N. Mason, S. Kivelson, S. Chakravarty, Phys. Rev. B 63, 125322 (2001), cond-mat/0009201.

 

  1. Dissipation effects on the superconductor-insulator transition in 2-D superconductors, N. Mason and A. Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5341 (1999), cond-mat/9810228.

 

 

 

Older Relevant papers:

 

1.       Transport Through Quantum Melts, Efrat Shimshoni, Assa Auerbach  and Aharon Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett.. 80, 3352 (1998), cond-mat/9710186.

 

2.       Observation of Quantum Dissipation in the Vortex State of a Highly Disordered Superconducting Thin Film, D. Ephron, A. Yazdani, A. Kapitulnik, and M.R. Beasley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1529 (1996).

 

3.       Superconducting-Insulating Transition in Two Dimensional a-MoGe Thin Films, Ali Yazdani and Aharon Kapitulnik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3037 (1995).