Dimensionality crossover in superconducting wire networks
- 16 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (20) , 2311-2314
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.2311
Abstract
We have fabricated wire networks in the form of triangular arrays of third-order Sierpinski gaskets and percolation arrays on square lattices. For the gaskets the superconducting phase boundary, (H), exhibits a clear crossover between the homogeneous and inhomogeneous (fractal) regimes. This is formally equivalent to the phonon-fracton crossover. Surprisingly, the random, square-lattice percolation networks, which are expected to exhibit a similar crossover, seem to behave in a manner characteristic of two-dimensional systems, independent of length scale.
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