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Superconductivity in an insulator

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The superconductor–insulator phase transition is a quantum phenomenon that reveals a competition between the superconducting phase order and charge localization. Now, microwave spectroscopy is shown to be a promising approach to investigate this effect in controllable one-dimensional Josephson arrays.

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Fig. 1: QPS-driven superconductor–insulator phase transition and its frequency control.

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  1. Institut fur Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Alexander D. Mirlin

  2. Institut fur Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Alexander D. Mirlin

  3. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Alexander D. Mirlin

  4. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander D. Mirlin & Ivan V. Protopopov

  5. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Ivan V. Protopopov

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Mirlin, A.D., Protopopov, I.V. Superconductivity in an insulator. Nat. Phys. 15, 880–881 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0580-y

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