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2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Humbert ◽  
M. Ortuño ◽  
A. M. Somoza ◽  
L. Bergé ◽  
L. Dumoulin ◽  
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AbstractBeyond a critical disorder, two-dimensional (2D) superconductors become insulating. In this Superconductor-Insulator Transition (SIT), the nature of the insulator is still controversial. Here, we present an extensive experimental study on insulating NbxSi1−x close to the SIT, as well as corresponding numerical simulations of the electrical conductivity. At low temperatures, we show that electronic transport is activated and dominated by charging energies. The sample thickness variation results in a large spread of activation temperatures, fine-tuned via disorder. We show numerically and experimentally that this originates from the localization length varying exponentially with thickness. At the lowest temperatures, there is an increase in activation energy related to the temperature at which this overactivated regime is observed. This relation, observed in many 2D systems shows that conduction is dominated by single charges that have to overcome the gap when entering superconducting grains.


2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (8) ◽  
pp. 083903
Author(s):  
R. Cohen ◽  
M. Nikolaevsky ◽  
R. Salem ◽  
A. Frydman

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Diamantini ◽  
C. A. Trugenberger ◽  
V. M. Vinokur

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Wang ◽  
Johan Biscaras ◽  
Andreas Erb ◽  
Abhay Shukla

AbstractThe superconductor-insulator transition in two dimensions is a prototype continuous quantum phase transition at absolute zero, driven by a parameter other than temperature. Here we reveal this transition in one unit-cell Bi2.1Sr1.9CaCu2O8+x by space charge doping, a field effect electrostatic doping technique. We determine the related critical parameters and develop a reliable way to estimate doping in the nonsuperconducting region, a crucial and central problem in these materials. Finite-size scaling analysis yields a critical doping of 0.057 holes/Cu, a critical resistance of ~6.85 kΩ and a scaling exponent product νz ~ 1.57. These results, together with earlier work in other materials, provide a coherent picture of the superconductor-insulator transition and its bosonic nature in the underdoped regime of emerging superconductivity in high critical temperature superconductors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 384 (23) ◽  
pp. 126570 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Diamantini ◽  
A.Yu. Mironov ◽  
S.M. Postolova ◽  
X. Liu ◽  
Z. Hao ◽  
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