# Disorder-induced superconductor to insulator transition and finite phase stiffness in two-dimensional phase-glass models

@article{Granato2020DisorderinducedST,
title={Disorder-induced superconductor to insulator transition and finite phase stiffness in two-dimensional phase-glass models},
author={Enzo Granato},
journal={Physical Review B},
year={2020},
volume={102}
}
• E. Granato
• Published 29 October 2020
• Physics
• Physical Review B
We study numerically the superconductor to insulator transition in two-dimensional phase-glass (or chiral-glass) models with varying degree of disorder. These models describe the effects of gauge disorder in superconductors due to random negative Josephson-junction couplings, or $\pi$ junctions. Two different models are considered, with binary and Gaussian distribution of quenched disorder, having nonzero mean. Monte Carlo simulations in the path-integral representation are used to determine…
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