Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2010-02-19
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
Scientific paper
Transition metal oxides display a great variety of quantum electronic behaviours where correlations often play an important role. The achievement of high quality epitaxial interfaces involving such materials gives a unique opportunity to engineer artificial structures where new electronic orders take place. One of the most striking result in this area is the recent observation of a two-dimensional electron gas at the interface between a strongly correlated Mott insulator LaTiO3 and a band insulator SrTiO3. The mechanism responsible for such a behaviour is still under debate. In particular, the influence of the nature of the insulator has to be clarified. Here we show that despite the expected electronic correlations, LaTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures undergo a superconducting transition at a critical temperature Tc=300 mK. We have found that the superconducting electron gas is confined over a typical thickness of 12 nm. We discuss the electronic properties of this system and review the possible scenarios.
Bergeal Nicolas
Biscaras Johan
Budhani Ramesh Chandra
Kushwaha Akhilesh
Lesueur Jerome
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