Two decades since its discovery, superconducting heavily boron-doped diamond (HBDD) still presents unresolved fundamental questions whose resolution is relevant to the development of this material for quantum technologies. We use electrical magnetotransport measurements of critically-doped homoepitaxial single crystal HBDD films to reveal signatures of intrinsic (electronic) granular superconductivity. By studying the dependence of electrical resistivity on temperature and magnetic field vector, we infer that this granularity arises from electron correlations. This is revealed by a striking three-phase anisotropy in the magnetoresistance, accompanied by a spontaneous transverse voltage (Hall anomaly). Our findings indicate an emergent magnetically tunable intrinsic order in an otherwise isotropic three dimensional single crystal HBDD film, offering new insights into the mechanism of superconductivity in this quantum material.
@article{arxiv.2506.09925,
title = {Emergent anisotropic three-phase order in critically doped superconducting diamond films},
author = {Jyotirmay Dwivedi and Jake Morris and Saurav Islam and Kalana D. Halanayake and Gabriel A. Vazquez-Lizardi and David Snyder and Anthony Richardella and Luke Lyle and Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey and Nazar Delegan and F. Joseph Heremans and David D. Awschalom and Nitin Samarth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09925},
year = {2026}
}