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In solid state physics, by super-insulators one refers to meaterials which at very low but non-vanishing temperature have effectively unbounded electrical resistance. This phenomenon may be understood as the “EM-dual” to that of superconductors.
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An experimentally accessible analog of confinement is observed in superinsulators, 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- 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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