nLab Carlo A. Trugenberger

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Selected writings

On coupling abelian Chern-Simons theory to 1+2D Maxwell theory for an effective description of superconductivity:

• M. Cristina Diamantini, P. Sodano, Carlo A. Trugenberger: Gauge Theories of Josephson Junction Arrays, Nucl. Phys. B 474 (1996) 641-677 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00309-4, arXiv:hep-th/9511168]

On an experimentally accessible analog of confinement, observed in superinsulators (the dual to superconductors), where the role of quark-pairs is played by Cooper pairs:

• M. Cristina Diamantini, Carlo A. Trugenberger, Valeri M. Vinokur: Confinement and Asymptotic Freedom with Cooper pairs, Nature Comm. Phys. 1 77 (2018) [arXiv:1807.01984, doi:10.1038/s42005-018-0073-9]

• M. Cristina Diamantini, Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulators: a toy realization of QCD in condensed matter, Ch. 23 in Roman Jackiw – 80th Birthday Festschrift, World Scientific (2020) 275-286 [arXiv:2008.12541]

Review:

• Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulators, Bose Metals and High-$T_c$ Superconductors: The Quantum Physics of Emergent Magnetic Monopoles, World Scientific (2022) [arXiv:10.1142/12688]

• Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulation: Magnetic Monopoles and Electric Confinement in Condensed Matter, talk at CQTS (Feb 2025) [slides:pdf]

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