A dome-shaped phase diagram of superconducting critical temperature upon doping is often considered as a hallmark of unconventional superconductors. This behavior, observed in two-dimensional electron gases in SrTiO3-based interfaces whose electronic density is controlled by field effect, has not been explained unambiguously yet. Here, we elaborate a generic scenario for the superconducting phase diagram of these oxide interfaces based on Schr\"odinger-Poisson numerical simulations of the quantum well and transport experiments on a double-gate field-effect device. We propose that the optimal doping point of maximum Tc marks the transition between a single-band and a fragile two-gap s±-wave superconducting state involving t2g bands of different orbital character. At the optimal doping point, we predict and observe experimentally a bifurcation in the dependence of Tc on the carrier density, which is controlled by the details of the doping execution. Where applying a back-gate voltage triggers the filling of a high-energy dxy subband and initiates the overdoped regime, doping with a top-gate delays the filling of the subband and maintains the 2-DEG in the single-band superconducting state of higher Tc.
@article{arxiv.2104.08220,
title = {Origin of the dome-shaped superconducting phase diagram in $\mathrm{SrTiO}_3$-based interfaces},
author = {A. Jouan and S. Hurand and G. Singh and E. Lesne and A. Barthélémy and M. Bibes and C. Ulysse and G. Saiz and C. Feuillet-Palma and J. Lesueur and N. Bergeal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08220},
year = {2021}
}