Volume 483 - The XVIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum Conference (QCHSC24) - Session A: Focus Subsection Topology and confinement at borderlines of particle physics and condensed matter: emergent confinement in cold atoms and Anderson criticality in the QCD deconfinement transition.
Superinsulators: the discovery of electric confinement in condensed matter systems
M.C. Diamantini Trugenberger
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Published on: October 27, 2025
Abstract
Superinsulators, a novel topological state of matter predicted by our collaboration and experi-
mentally observed near the superconductor-insulator transition (SIT), are the electric-magnetic
(S) duals of superconductors. In superinsulators, Cooper pairs are confined by electric fields
compressed into strings via a monopole condensate (an instanton plasma in (2+1) dimensions),
mirroring the dual Meissner effect and resembling quark confinement in hadrons. This realizes
the electric counterpart of the dual superconductor mechanism proposed for confinement in QCD.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.483.0059
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