Percolative Superconductivity in Electron-Doped Sr$_{1-x}$Eu$_{x}$CuO$_{2+y}$ Films
| Autor: | Yu, Xue-Qing, Yan, Hang, Wei, Li-Xuan, Deng, Ze-Xian, Xiong, Yan-Ling, Fan, Jia-Qi, Yu, Pu, Ma, Xu-Cun, Xue, Qi-Kun, Song, Can-Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.L100503 |
| Popis: | Electron-doped infinite-layer Sr$_{1-x}$Eu$_{x}$CuO$_{2+y}$ films over a wide doping range have been prepared epitaxially on SrTiO$_3$(001) using reactive molecular beam epitaxy. In-plane transport measurements of the single crystalline samples reveal a dome-shaped nodeless superconducting phase centered at $x$ $\sim$ 0.15, a Fermi-liquid behavior and pronounced upturn in low temperature resistivity. We show that the resistivity upturn follows square-root temperature dependence, suggesting the emergence of superconductivity via a three-dimensional percolation process. The percolative superconductivity is corroborated spectroscopically by imaging the electronic phase separation between superconducting and metallic phases with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. Furthermore, we visualize interstitial and apical oxygen anions that rapidly increase in number as $x>$ 0.12, and elucidate their impacts on the superconductivity and normal-state resistivity. Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, 9 supplemental figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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