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Title: Intrinsic Spin-Orbit Coupling in Superconducting Delta-Doped SrTiO3 Heterostructures

Journal Article · · Submitted to Physical Review Letters
OSTI ID:1022457

We report the violation of the Pauli limit due to intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in SrTiO{sub 3} heterostructures. Via selective doping down to a few nanometers, a two-dimensional superconductor is formed, geometrically suppressing orbital pair-breaking. The spin-orbit scattering is exposed by the robust in-plane superconducting upper critical field, exceeding the Pauli limit by a factor of 4. Transport scattering times several orders of magnitude higher than for conventional thin film superconductors enables a new regime to be entered, where spin-orbit coupling effects arise non-perturbatively.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1022457
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-14501; TRN: US201118%%173
Journal Information:
Submitted to Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Submitted to Physical Review Letters
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English