Fluctuations, dissipation, and nonuniversal superfluid jumps in two-dimensional superconductors

Details Fluctuations, dissipation, and nonuniversal superfluid jumps in two-dimensional superconductors Fluctuations, dissipation, and nonuniversal superfluid jumps in two-dimensional superconductors

2006-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612092v2

Phys. Rev. B 75, 094506 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.094506

We report a comprehensive study of the complex AC conductivity of thin effectively 2D amorphous superconducting InO_x films at zero applied field. Below a temperature scale T_c0 where the superconducting order parameter amplitude becomes well defined, there is a temperature where both the generalized superfluid stiffness acquires a frequency dependence and the DC mangetoresistance becomes linear in field. We associate this with a transition of the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii (KTB) type. At our measurement frequencies the superfluid stiffness at T_KTB is found to be larger than the universal value. Although this may be understood with a vortex dielectric constant of epsilon_v ~ 1.9 within the usual KTB theory, this is a relatively large value and indicates that such a system may be out of the domain of applicability of the low-fugacity (low vortex density) KTB treatment. This opens up the possibility that at least some of the discrepancy from a non-universal magnitude is intrinsic. Our finite frequency measurements allow us access to a number of other phenomena concerning the charge dynamics in superconducting thin films, including an enhanced conductivity near the amplitude fluctuation temperature T_c0 and a finite dissipation at low temperature which appears to be a universal aspect of highly disordered superconducting films.

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