Special Condensed Matter Seminar today, Wed 4pm

[Mueller Markus]

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section
Joint SISSA/ICTP CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR

Wednesday, 5 June 2013  at 4:00 p.m.

Venue:  Luigi Stasi Lecture Hall, ICTP Leonardo Building, 1st floor

Speaker:
Dan SHAHAR
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot


Title:
Duality near the superconductor-insulator transition


Abstract:
Careful transport measurements near the superconductor-insulator
transition in amorphous indium-oxide reveal a symmetry relating states in
the insulator to those in the superconducting phase. I will discuss this
symmetry and its consequences, and show that it is violated upon entering
the strong insulator at low temperatures.