Superconductivity in a disordered metal with unscreened Coulomb interactions
arxiv(2020)
摘要
We study the electronic densities of states (DOS) of strongly disordered superconducting thin films of TiN which show an increasing but non-diverging increase of the resistance towards zero temperature. We find, using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) that the DOS decreases towards the Fermi level in the normal phase obtained by applying magnetic fields. The derivative of the DOS $\frac{N'}{N}(E)$ has a bell-shape that sharpens with decreasing temperature. At T$_c$, the position in energy of the peak in $\frac{N'}{N}(E)$ roughly coincides with the value of the superconducting gap. The DOS shows spatial fluctuations whose length scale is related to the energy dependent DOS and is similar in normal and superconducting phases. This suggests that the disorder induced transition from a normal superconducting metal towards an insulator is through the loss of the Fermi liquid by Coulomb interactions that leads to an emergent granularity.
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superconductivity,unscreened coulomb interactions,metal
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