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Superinsulators: a toy realization of QCD in condensed matter

M. C. Diamantini·C. A. Trugenberger
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Superinsulators are dual superconductors, dissipationless magnetic monopole condensates with infinite resistance. The long-distance field theory of such states of matter is QED with dynamical matter coupled via a compact BF topological interaction. We will quantize the 2D model in the functional Schrödinger picture and show how strong entanglement of charges leads to a phase which is a single-color, asymptotically free version of QCD in which the infinite resistance is caused by the linear confinement of charges. This phase has been experimentally detected in TiN, NbTiN and InO thin films, including signatures of asymptotically free behaviour and of the dual, electric Meissner effect. This makes superinsulators a ``toy realization" of QCD with Cooper pairs playing the role of quarks.

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M. C. Diamantini, C. A. Trugenberger. 2020-08-28. Superinsulators: a toy realization of QCD in condensed matter. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12541

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