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Electrostatically-tuned superconductor-metal-insulator quantum transition at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface

Published inPhysical Review. B, Condensed Matter, vol. 79, no. 18, 184502
Publication date2009
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Recently superconductivity at the interface between the insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 has been tuned with the electric-field effect to an unprecedented range of transition temperatures. Here we perform a detailed finite-size scaling analysis to explore the compatibility of the phase-transition line with Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) behavior and a two-dimensional-quantum-phase (2D-QP) transition. In an intermediate regime, limited by a gate voltage dependent limiting length, we uncover remarkable consistency with a BKT-critical line ending at a metallic quantum critical point, separating a weakly localized insulator from the superconducting phase. Our estimates for the critical exponents of the 2D-QP-transition, z similar or equal to 1 and nu over bar similar or equal to 2/3, suggest that it belongs to the three-dimensional-xy universality class.

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SCHNEIDER, T. et al. Electrostatically-tuned superconductor-metal-insulator quantum transition at the LaAlO<sub>3</sub>/SrTiO<sub>3</sub> interface. In: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter, 2009, vol. 79, n° 18, p. 184502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.184502
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