Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2018 Apr 6;120(14):147001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.147001.
We examine superconductivity in LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} channels with widths that transition from the 1D to the 2D regime. The superconducting critical current is independent of the channel width and increases approximately linearly with the number of parallel channels. Signatures of electron pairing outside of the superconducting regime are also found to be independent of the channel width. Collectively, these results indicate that superconductivity exists at the boundary of these channels and is absent within the interior region of the channels. The intrinsic 1D nature of superconductivity at the LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} interface imposes strong physical constraints on possible electron pairing mechanisms.
我们研究了 LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} 通道的超导性,这些通道的宽度从 1D 转变为 2D 区域。超导临界电流与通道宽度无关,并随平行通道数量的增加近似呈线性增加。在超导区域之外,也发现了电子对的配对特征与通道宽度无关。总的来说,这些结果表明超导性存在于这些通道的边界处,而不存在于通道内部区域。LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} 界面处超导的固有 1D 性质对可能的电子配对机制施加了强烈的物理限制。