Random inductor-capacitor (LC) networks can exhibit percolative superconductor-insulator transitions (SITs). We use a simple and efficient algorithm to compute the dynamical conductivity σ(ω, p) of one type of LC network on large (4000 × 4000) square lattices, where δ = p − pc is the tuning parameter for the SIT. We confirm that the conductivity obeys a scaling form, so that the characteristic frequency scales as Ω ∝ |δ| νz with νz ≈ 1.91, the superfluid stiffness scales as Υ ∝ |δ| t with t ≈ 1.3, and the electric susceptibility scales as χE ∝ |δ| −s with s = 2νz − t ≈ 2.52. In the insulating state, the low-frequency dissipative conductivity is exponentially small, whereas in the superconductor, it is linear in frequency. The sign of Im σ(ω) at small ω changes across the SIT. Most importantly, we find that right at the SIT Re σ(ω) ∝ ω t/νz−1 ∝ ω −0.32 , so that the conductivity diverges in the DC limit, in contrast with most other classical and quantum models of SITs. [4,5]. As a quantum phase transition occurring at zero temperature, this superconductor-insulator transition (SIT) has attracted much interest. Early work focused on the most easily measurable quantity, the DC conductivity.[1-3, 6-10] Recently, due to the availability of local scanning probes, attention has turned to the tunneling behavior [11][12][13][14][15]. In the case of the disorder-tuned SIT [15], it has become clear that the SIT is ultimately due to a bosonic mechanism [16] rather than a fermionic one [17]. The last step towards a full characterization of the SIT is to develop an understanding of the behavior of the AC conductivity. This is a powerful probe of fluctuations on both long and short length and time scales, and it is of great interest especially as recent technological developments begin to open up more windows of the electromagnetic spectrum for measurement [18][19][20][21].One of the most important questions concerns the AC conductivity in the "collisionless DC" limit [22,23] [52], σ * = lim ω→0 lim T →0 σ(ω, T ). This has been the subject of a large body of work, including analytical arguments involving charge-vortex duality arguments, quantum Monte Carlo calculations in various representations, and experiments [1,4,16,23,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. It is often claimed that at the SIT σ * is finite and takes a universal value of the order of σ Q = 4e 2 /h, but there are large discrepancies between the "universal" values from various studies, and it is not clear whether there really is a universal value.
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