Transport through quantum melts

Efrat Shimshoni, Assa Auerbach, Aharon Kapitulnik

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Abstract

We discuss superconductor to insulator and quantum Hall transitions which are of first order in the clean limit. Disorder creates a nearly percolating network of the minority phase. Electrical transport is dominated by tunneling or activation through the saddle point junctions, whose typical resistance is calculated as a function of magnetic field. In the Boltzmann regime, this approach yields resistivity laws which agree with recent experiments in both classes of systems. We discuss the origin of dissipation at zero temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3352-3355
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume80
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes

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