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Dynamical vortex phase diagram of 2D superconductivity in gated MoS2

Superconductivity 2020-07-15 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science

Abstract

Recent discoveries of two-dimensional (2D) superconductors have uncovered various new aspects of physical properties including vortex matter. In this paper, we report transport properties and a dynamical phase diagram at zero magnetic field in ion-gated MoS2. In addition to the universal jump in the current-voltage characteristic showing unambiguous evidence of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, we observed multiple peaks in the temperature- and current-derivative of the electrical resistance, based on which a dynamical phase diagram in the current-temperature plane was constructed. We found current-induced dynamical states of vortex-antivortex pairs, containing that with the phase slip line. Also, we present a global phase diagram of vortices in gated MoS2 which captures the nature of vortex matter of clean 2D superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.2006.10749,
  title  = {Dynamical vortex phase diagram of 2D superconductivity in gated MoS2},
  author = {Yu Saito and Yuki M. Itahashi and Tsutomu Nojima and Yoshihiro Iwasa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.10749},
  year   = {2020}
}

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31 pages, 7 figures