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

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arxiv 2303.10639 v3 pith:NUQSEGQM submitted 2023-03-19 cond-mat.supr-con

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

Alexander Weitzel , Lea Pfaffinger , Ilaria Maccari , Klaus Kronfeldner , Thomas Huber , Lorenz Fuchs , James Mallord , Sven Linzen
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Evgeni Il'ichev Nicola Paradiso Christoph Strunk
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We present a comprehensive investigation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in ultrathin strongly disordered NbN films. Measurements of resistance, current-voltage characteristics and kinetic inductance on the very same device reveal a consistent picture of a sharp unbinding transition of vortex-antivortex pairs that fit standard renormalization group theory without extra assumptions in terms of inhomogeneity. Our experiments demonstrate that the previously observed broadening of the transition is not an intrinsic feature of strongly disordered superconductors and provide a clean starting point for the study of dynamical effects at the BKT transition.

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