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

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

2009-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2488v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

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 2D-quantum phase(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=1 and nu=0.66, suggest that it belongs to the 3D-xy universality class.

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