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Stoichiometric control of electron mobility and 2D superconductivity at LaAlO$_3$-SrTiO$_3$ interfaces

Superconductivity 2024-01-26 v1

Abstract

SrTiO3_3-based conducting interfaces, which exhibit coexistence of gate-tunable 2D superconductivity and strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC), are candidates to host topological superconductive phases. Yet, superconductivity is usually in the dirty limit, which tends to suppress nonconventional pairing and therefore challenges these expectations. Here we report on LaAlO3_3/SrTiO3_3 (LAO/STO) interfaces with remarkably large mobility and mean free paths comparable to the superconducting coherence length, approaching the clean limit for superconductivity. We further show that the carrier density, mobility, and formation of the superconducting condensate are controlled by the fine-tuning of La/Al chemical ratio in the LAO film. Interestingly, we find a region in the superconducting phase diagram where the critical temperature is not suppressed below the Lifshitz transition, at odds with previous experimental investigations. These findings point out the relevance of achieving a clean-limit regime to enhance the observation of unconventional pairing mechanisms in these systems

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@article{arxiv.2401.14365,
  title  = {Stoichiometric control of electron mobility and 2D superconductivity at LaAlO$_3$-SrTiO$_3$ interfaces},
  author = {Gyanendra Singh and Roger Guzman and Guilhem Saïz and Wu Zhou and Jaume Gazquez and Jordi Fraxedas and Fereshteh Masoudinia and Dag Winkler and Tord Claeson and Nicolas Bergeal and Gervasi Herranz and Alexei Kalaboukhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14365},
  year   = {2024}
}