Thickness magnetic field phase diagram at the superconductor-insulator transition in 2D

Citation
N. Markovic et al., Thickness magnetic field phase diagram at the superconductor-insulator transition in 2D, PHYS REV L, 81(23), 1998, pp. 5217-5220
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
81
Issue
23
Year of publication
1998
Pages
5217 - 5220
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(199812)81:23<5217:TMFPDA>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The superconductor-insulator transition in ultrathin films of amorphous Bi has been tuned by changing both film thickness and magnetic field on the sa me-set of films. A thickness-magnetic field phase diagram has been mapped i n the T = 0 limit. A finite size scaling analysis has been carried out to d etermine the critical exponent product vz, which was found to be 1.2 +/- 0. 2 and 1.4 +/- 0.2 for the thickness-tuned transitions in zero and finite ma gnetic fields, respectively. These are different from the exponent found fo r the magnetic-held-tuned transition in the same system, 0.7 +/- 0.2.