Quantum breakdown of superconductivity in low-dimensional materials

B Sacépé, M Feigel'man, TM Klapwijk - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
In order to understand the emergence of superconductivity it is useful to study the reverse
process and identify the various pathways that lead to its destruction. One way is to increase …

Phase fluctuations in conventional superconductors

P Raychaudhuri, S Dutta - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Within the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) theory, superconductivity is entirely
governed by the pairing energy scale, which gives rise to the superconducting energy gap …

Sharpness of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in disordered NbN films

A Weitzel, L Pfaffinger, I Maccari, K Kronfeldner… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present a comprehensive investigation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
in ultrathin strongly disordered NbN films. Measurements of resistance, current-voltage …

Beyond the effective length: How to analyze magnetic interference patterns of thin-film planar Josephson junctions with finite lateral dimensions

R Fermin, B de Wit, J Aarts - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The magnetic-field-dependent critical current I c (B) of a Josephson junction is determined
by the screening currents in its electrodes. In macroscopic junctions, a local vector potential …

Disorder-and magnetic field–tuned fermionic superconductor-insulator transition in MoN thin films: Transport and scanning tunneling microscopy

M Kuzmiak, M Kopčík, F Košuth, V Vaňo, J Haniš… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Superconductor-insulator transition (SIT) driven by disorder and transverse magnetic field
has been investigated in ultrathin MoN films by means of transport measurements and …

Dependence of the critical temperature and disorder in holographic superconductors on superfluid density

Z Wang, XH Ge, S Ishigaki - Progress of Theoretical and …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Recent experiments strongly indicate deep connections between transports of strange metal
and high T c superconductors. For instance, it is known that the dependence of the zero …

First-order quantum breakdown of superconductivity in an amorphous superconductor

T Charpentier, D Perconte, S Léger, KR Amin… - Nature Physics, 2025 - nature.com
Continuous quantum phase transitions are widely assumed and frequently observed in
various systems of quantum particles or spins. Their characteristic trait is a second-order …

Anomalous Superfluid Density in a Disordered Charge-Density-Wave Material: Pd-Intercalated

Y Iguchi, JA Straquadine, C Murthy, SA Kivelson… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We image local superfluid density in single crystals of Pd-intercalated ErTe 3 below the
superconducting critical temperature T c, well below the onset temperature T CDW of …

Doubling the superconducting transition temperature of ultraclean wafer-scale aluminum nanofilms

CC Yeh, TH Do, PC Liao, CH Hsu, YH Tu, H Lin… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We studied the role of reduced dimensionality and disorder in the superconducting
properties of wafer-scale aluminum (Al) nanofilms. This new generation of ultrathin films …

Magnetic field induced transition from a vortex liquid to Bose metal in ultrathin -MoGe thin film

S Dutta, J Jesudasan, P Raychaudhuri - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We find transport and spectroscopic signatures that are consistent with a magnetic field
induced transition from a vortex liquid to Bose metal in a two-dimensional amorphous …