Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless to BCS-like superconducting transition crossover driven by weak magnetic fields in ultra-thin NbN films

Autor:	Sharma, Meenakshi, Caprara, Sergio, Perali, Andrea, Singh, Surinder P., Singh, Sandeep, Fretto, Matteo, De Leo, Natascia, Pinto, Nicola
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Condensed Matter - Superconductivity Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in ultra-thin NbN films is investigated in the presence of weak perpendicular magnetic fields. A jump in the phase stiffness at the BKT transition is detected up to 5 G, while the BKT features are smeared between 5 G and 50 G, disappearing altogether at 100 G, where conventional current-voltage behaviour is observed. Our findings demonstrate that weak magnetic fields, insignificant in bulk systems, deeply affect our ultra-thin system, promoting a crossover from Halperin-Nelson fluctuations to a BCS-like state with Ginzburg-Landau fluctuations, as the field increases. This behavior is related to field-induced free vortices that screen the vortex-antivortex interaction and smear the BKT transition. Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11685 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv