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Dimension Effects in Insulating NbTiN Disordered Films and the Asymptotic Freedom of Cooper Pairs. / Burdastyh, M. V.; Postolova, S. V.; Derbezov, I. A. et al.
In: JETP Letters, Vol. 109, No. 12, 01.06.2019, p. 795-798.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Dimension Effects in Insulating NbTiN Disordered Films and the Asymptotic Freedom of Cooper Pairs
AU - Burdastyh, M. V.
AU - Postolova, S. V.
AU - Derbezov, I. A.
AU - Gaisler, A. V.
AU - Diamantini, M. C.
AU - Trugenberger, C. A.
AU - Vinokur, V. M.
AU - Mironov, A. Yu
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - We investigate the evolution of the electronic transport in disordered NbTiN films at the insulating side of the superconductor-insulator transition as function of the effective system size along the current direction. We demonstrate that both, the threshold voltage characterizing low-temperature superinsulating phase, and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless criticality of the conductance above the superinsulator critical temperature, vanish upon increasing disorder taking the system far from the disorder-driven superconductor-insulator transition. We find that decrease in the system’s effective size suppresses its insulating and superinsulating properties and that threshold voltage drops linearly with the diminishing system size. We demonstrate that this linear dependence can be used for experimental measurement of the linear tension of the electric string binding Cooper pairs and anti-Cooper pairs in a superinsulator.
AB - We investigate the evolution of the electronic transport in disordered NbTiN films at the insulating side of the superconductor-insulator transition as function of the effective system size along the current direction. We demonstrate that both, the threshold voltage characterizing low-temperature superinsulating phase, and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless criticality of the conductance above the superinsulator critical temperature, vanish upon increasing disorder taking the system far from the disorder-driven superconductor-insulator transition. We find that decrease in the system’s effective size suppresses its insulating and superinsulating properties and that threshold voltage drops linearly with the diminishing system size. We demonstrate that this linear dependence can be used for experimental measurement of the linear tension of the electric string binding Cooper pairs and anti-Cooper pairs in a superinsulator.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067046271&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1134/S0021364019120014
DO - 10.1134/S0021364019120014
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067046271
VL - 109
SP - 795
EP - 798
JO - JETP Letters
JF - JETP Letters
SN - 0021-3640
IS - 12
ER -
ID: 20588167