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Two-dimensional superconductor-insulator quantum phase transitions in an electron-doped cuprate

Superconductivity 2015-07-08 v1

Abstract

We use ionic liquid-assisted electric field effect to tune the carrier density in an electron-doped cuprate ultrathin film and cause a two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition (SIT). The low upper critical field in this system allows us to perform magnetic field (B)-induced SIT in the liquid-gated superconducting film. Finite-size scaling analysis indicates that SITs induced both by electric and magnetic field are quantum phase transitions and the transitions are governed by percolation effects - quantum mechanical in the former and classical in the latter case. Compared to the hole-doped cuprates, the SITs in electron-doped system occur at critical sheet resistances (Rc) much lower than the pair quantum resistance RQ=h/(2e)2=6.45 k{\Omega}, suggesting the possible existence of fermionic excitations at finite temperature at the insulating phase near SITs.

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@article{arxiv.1507.01668,
  title  = {Two-dimensional superconductor-insulator quantum phase transitions in an electron-doped cuprate},
  author = {S. W. Zeng and Z. Huang and W. M. Lv and N. N. Bao and K. Gopinadhan and L. K. Jian and T. S. Herng and Z. Q. Liu and Y. L. Zhao and C. J. Li and H. J. Harsan Ma and P. Yang and J. Ding and T. Venkatesan and Ariando},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.01668},
  year   = {2015}
}

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