Intrinsic non-linear conduction in the super-insulating state of thin TiN films

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2010-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5153v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 4 figures

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We investigate experimentally the electric transport at the insulating side of the superconductor to insulator transition in thin TiN-films. At temperatures T > 50 mK we observe an Arrhenius-type conductance, with an activation energy depending logarithmically on the sample size. At high bias the current voltage (I-V) characteristics display a large current jump into an electron heating dominated regime. For the largest samples, and below 50 mK we observe a low-bias power law I ~ V^alpha characteristics with an exponent alpha > 1 rapidly growing with decreasing temperature, which is expected for a binding-unbinding crossover of the charge-Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type.

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