Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn1–xInxTe Thin Films

Wang, Jiashu; Powers, William; Zhang, Zhan; Smith, Michael; McIntosh, Bradlee J.; Bac, Seul Ki; Riney, Logan; Zhukovskyi, Maksym; Orlova, Tatyana; Rokhinson, Leonid P.; Hsu, Yi-Ting; Liu, Xinyu; Assaf, Badih A.

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04370

Title: Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn_1–xIn_xTe Thin Films

Abstract

Topological superconductors have attracted tremendous excitement as they are predicted to host Majorana zero modes that can be utilized for topological quantum computing. Candidate topological superconductor Sn_1–xIn_xTe thin films (0 < x < 0.3) grown by molecular beam epitaxy and strained in the (111) plane are shown to host quantum interference effects in the conductivity coexisting with superconducting fluctuations above the critical temperature T_c. An analysis of the normal state magnetoresistance reveals these effects. A crossover from weak antilocalization to localization is consistently observed in superconducting samples, indicating that superconductivity originates dominantly from charge carriers occupying trivial states that may be strongly spin–orbit split. A large enhancement of the conductivity is observed above T_c, indicating the presence of superconducting fluctuations. Furthermore, our results motivate a re-examination of the debated pairing symmetry of this material when subjected to quantum confinement and lattice strain.

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Wang, Jiashu ^[1]; Powers, William ^[1]; Zhang, Zhan ^[2]; Smith, Michael ^[1]; McIntosh, Bradlee J. ^[1]; Bac, Seul Ki ^[1]; Riney, Logan ^[1]; Zhukovskyi, Maksym ^[1]; Orlova, Tatyana ^[1]; Rokhinson, Leonid P. ^[3]; Hsu, Yi-Ting ^[1];

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^[1]

Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2022

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division

OSTI Identifier:: 1846793

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Nano Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; superconductivity; thin films; topological insulator; magnetoresistance; layers; magnetic properties

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                    Wang, Jiashu, Powers, William, Zhang, Zhan, Smith, Michael, McIntosh, Bradlee J., Bac, Seul Ki, Riney, Logan, Zhukovskyi, Maksym, Orlova, Tatyana, Rokhinson, Leonid P., Hsu, Yi-Ting, Liu, Xinyu, and Assaf, Badih A. Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn1–xInxTe Thin Films.  United States: N. p., 2022. 
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                    Wang, Jiashu, Powers, William, Zhang, Zhan, Smith, Michael, McIntosh, Bradlee J., Bac, Seul Ki, Riney, Logan, Zhukovskyi, Maksym, Orlova, Tatyana, Rokhinson, Leonid P., Hsu, Yi-Ting, Liu, Xinyu, & Assaf, Badih A. Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn1–xInxTe Thin Films.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04370

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                    Wang, Jiashu, Powers, William, Zhang, Zhan, Smith, Michael, McIntosh, Bradlee J., Bac, Seul Ki, Riney, Logan, Zhukovskyi, Maksym, Orlova, Tatyana, Rokhinson, Leonid P., Hsu, Yi-Ting, Liu, Xinyu, and Assaf, Badih A. Mon .  
"Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn1–xInxTe Thin Films".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04370.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1846793.

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  title        = {Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn1–xInxTe Thin Films},

  author       = {Wang, Jiashu and Powers, William and Zhang, Zhan and Smith, Michael and McIntosh, Bradlee J. and Bac, Seul Ki and Riney, Logan and Zhukovskyi, Maksym and Orlova, Tatyana and Rokhinson, Leonid P. and Hsu, Yi-Ting and Liu, Xinyu and Assaf, Badih A.},

  abstractNote = {Topological superconductors have attracted tremendous excitement as they are predicted to host Majorana zero modes that can be utilized for topological quantum computing. Candidate topological superconductor Sn1–xInxTe thin films (0 < x < 0.3) grown by molecular beam epitaxy and strained in the (111) plane are shown to host quantum interference effects in the conductivity coexisting with superconducting fluctuations above the critical temperature Tc. An analysis of the normal state magnetoresistance reveals these effects. A crossover from weak antilocalization to localization is consistently observed in superconducting samples, indicating that superconductivity originates dominantly from charge carriers occupying trivial states that may be strongly spin–orbit split. A large enhancement of the conductivity is observed above Tc, indicating the presence of superconducting fluctuations. Furthermore, our results motivate a re-examination of the debated pairing symmetry of this material when subjected to quantum confinement and lattice strain.},

  doi          = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04370},

  journal      = {Nano Letters},

  number       = 2,

  volume       = 22,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2022},

  month        = {Mon Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2022}

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Disordered films of superconductors above their transition temperature T/sub c/ show several quantum corrections to the conductance, weak localization (WL), two contributions from the retarded Coulomb interaction, and two contributions from superconducting fluctuations, the Aslamazov-Larkin (AL) and the Maki-Thompson (MT) terms. In a magnetic field, most of them show a magnetoresistance and all are temperature dependent. In this paper the temperature and field dependence of the resistance is measured for Al, Sn, and amorphous Bi/sub 0.9/Tl/sub 0.1/ films. This covers the weak-coupling and the extremely-strong-coupling superconductors as well. Of particular interest are the AL and the MT terms. The lattermore »« less
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Inelastic phase-coherence time in thin metal films journal, November 1987

Critical Fluctuation of the Order Parameter in a Superconductor. I journal, August 1968

Experimental investigation of spin-orbit coupling in n -type PbTe quantum wells journal, March 2014

Odd-Parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to Cu x Bi 2 Se 3 journal, August 2010

Superconducting properties of the In-substituted topological crystalline insulator SnTe journal, April 2013

Signatures of dephasing by mirror-symmetry breaking in weak-antilocalization magnetoresistance across the topological transition in Pb 1 − x Sn x Se journal, June 2021

Two-dimensional quantum transport of multivalley (111) surface state in topological crystalline insulator SnTe thin films journal, December 2015

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Molecular beam epitaxy of superconducting Sn 1 − x In x Te thin films journal, September 2020

Epitaxial growth of Pb1−xGexTe films and of PbTe/Pb1−xGexTe superlattices journal, October 1987

Observation of topological crystalline insulator surface states on (111)-oriented Pb 1 − x Sn x Se films journal, February 2014

Resistivity anomaly and phase transition of Pb 1-x Ge x Se journal, July 1985

Phase Transition in SnTe with Low Carrier Concentration journal, February 1975

Nearly ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity journal, August 2019

Superconducting Fluctuation Effects on the Spin-Lattice Relaxation Rate in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6.95 journal, March 1999

Magneto-optical investigations of phase-transition-induced band-structure changes of Pb 1 − x Ge x Te journal, June 1985

Surface-state-dominated transport in crystals of the topological crystalline insulator In-doped Pb 1 − x Sn x Te journal, May 2015

Weak antilocalization beyond the fully diffusive regime in Pb 1 − x Sn x Se topological quantum wells journal, October 2020

Superconducting fluctuation conductivity in a magnetic field in two dimensions journal, January 1985

Giant Rashba Splitting in Pb 1- x Sn x Te (111) Topological Crystalline Insulator Films Controlled by Bi Doping in the Bulk journal, November 2016

Microwave, Flux Flow, and Fluctuation Resistance of Dirty Type-II Superconductors journal, January 1970

Superconductivity in Cu x Bi 2 Se 3 and its Implications for Pairing in the Undoped Topological Insulator journal, February 2010

Topological crystalline insulators in the SnTe material class journal, January 2012

Two types of Dirac-cone surface states on the (111) surface of the topological crystalline insulator SnTe journal, December 2013

Broken time-reversal symmetry in the topological superconductor UPt3 journal, March 2020

Highly Tunable Berry Phase and Ambipolar Field Effect in Topological Crystalline Insulator Pb 1– x Sn x Se journal, February 2015

Quantum corrections to the resistance in two-dimensional disordered superconductors above T c : Al, Sn, and amorphous Bi 0.9 Tl 0.1 films journal, June 1984

Competition between Weak Localization and Antilocalization in Topological Surface States journal, August 2011

Josephson detection of time-reversal symmetry broken superconductivity in SnTe nanowires journal, June 2021

Raman observation of the ferroelectric phase transition in SnTe journal, February 1974

Nodeless superconducting gap in the candidate topological superconductor Sn 1 − x In x Te for x = 0.7 journal, March 2020

Anomalous resistivity near the ferroelectric phase transition in (Pb, Ge, Sn)Te alloy semiconductors journal, October 1979

Robust weak antilocalization due to spin-orbital entanglement in Dirac material Sr3SnO journal, March 2020

Revealing Surface States in In-Doped SnTe Nanoplates with Low Bulk Mobility journal, May 2015

Spin-orbit-split subbands in IV-VI asymmetric quantum wells journal, November 2003

Fully gapped superconductivity in In-doped topological crystalline insulator Pb 0.5 Sn 0.5 Te journal, July 2015

Superconductivity-localization interplay and fluctuation magnetoresistance in epitaxial BaPb 1 − x Bi x O 3 thin films journal, April 2018

Superconducting thin films of (100) and (111) oriented indium doped topological crystalline insulator SnTe journal, August 2015

An unusual continuous paramagnetic-limited superconducting phase transition in 2D NbSe 2 journal, April 2018

Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond journal, January 2006

Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids journal, January 2018

Weak localization in thin films journal, May 1984

Magnetoresistance in Si metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transitors: Evidence of weak localization and correlation journal, July 1982

Electron and hole contributions to normal-state transport in the superconducting system Sn 1 − x In x Te journal, August 2018

The role of density of states fluctuations in the normal state properties of high T c superconductors journal, November 1999

Odd-parity superconductivity from phonon-mediated pairing: Application to Cu x Bi 2 Se 3 journal, November 2014

Possible Topological Superconducting Phases of MoS 2 journal, August 2014

Enhanced superconducting pairing interaction in indium-doped tin telluride journal, January 2009

Colloquium: Topological insulators journal, November 2010

Gapless Andreev bound states in the quantum spin Hall insulator HgTe journal, August 2016

Experimental realization of a topological crystalline insulator in SnTe journal, September 2012

Anomalous composition dependence of the superconductivity in In-doped SnTe journal, January 2016

Spin-Orbit Interaction and Magnetoresistance in the Two Dimensional Random System journal, February 1980

Effects of electron-electron collisions with small energy transfers on quantum localisation journal, December 1982

Weak-localization, Aslamazov-Larkin, and Maki-Thompson superconducting fluctuation effects in disordered Zr 1 − x Rh x films above T c journal, September 1997

Optimizing the superconducting transition temperature and upper critical field of Sn 1 − x In x Te journal, July 2013

Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator journal, March 2008

Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation journal, October 2015

Engineering relativistic effects in ferroelectric SnTe journal, October 2014

Superconductivity, pairing symmetry, and disorder in the doped topological insulator Sn 1 − x In x Te for x ≥ 0.10 journal, January 2018

Recent experimental studies of electron dephasing in metal and semiconductor mesoscopic structures journal, April 2002

Giant superconducting fluctuations in the compensated semimetal FeSe at the BCS–BEC crossover journal, September 2016

Effect of superconducting fluctuations on the transverse resistance of high- T c superconductors journal, April 1993

Topological superconductivity in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides journal, April 2017

Topological superconductors: a review journal, May 2017

Pseudogap in a thin film of a conventional superconductor journal, December 2010

Two-dimensional fluctuation-induced conductivity above the critical temperature journal, September 1977

The influence of fluctuation pairing of electrons on the conductivity of normal metal journal, February 1968

Fluctuation conductivity of layered superconductors in a perpendicular magnetic field journal, November 1993

Anomalous magnetoresistance in 2D Pd and PdHx films journal, January 1985

Weak-link Josephson Junctions Made from Topological Crystalline Insulators journal, August 2018

Title: Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn_1–xIn_xTe Thin Films

Topological insulators and superconductors
journal, October 2011

Microscopic characterization of the superconducting gap function in ${Sn}_{1 - x} {In}_{x} Te$
journal, January 2020

Spin-singlet superconductivity in the doped topological crystalline insulator ${Sn}_{0.96} {In}_{0.04} Te$
journal, September 2017

Unusual nature of fully gapped superconductivity in In-doped SnTe
journal, October 2013

Quantum coherent transport in SnTe topological crystalline insulator thin films
journal, September 2014

Superconducting fluctuations and ${}^{63}{Cu}$ NQR-NMR relaxation in $Y {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ : Effect of magnetic field and a test for the pairing-state symmetry
journal, October 1996

Inelastic phase-coherence time in thin metal films
journal, November 1987

Critical Fluctuation of the Order Parameter in a Superconductor. I
journal, August 1968

Experimental investigation of spin-orbit coupling in n -type PbTe quantum wells
journal, March 2014

Odd-Parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$
journal, August 2010

Superconducting properties of the In-substituted topological crystalline insulator SnTe
journal, April 2013

Signatures of dephasing by mirror-symmetry breaking in weak-antilocalization magnetoresistance across the topological transition in ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x} Se$
journal, June 2021

Two-dimensional quantum transport of multivalley (111) surface state in topological crystalline insulator SnTe thin films
journal, December 2015

Enhanced Spontaneous Polarization in Ultrathin SnTe Films with Layered Antipolar Structure
journal, September 2018

Molecular beam epitaxy of superconducting ${Sn}_{1 − x} {In}_{x} Te$ thin films
journal, September 2020

Epitaxial growth of Pb1−xGexTe films and of PbTe/Pb1−xGexTe superlattices
journal, October 1987

Observation of topological crystalline insulator surface states on (111)-oriented Pb $_{1 - x}$ Sn $_{x}$ Se films
journal, February 2014

Resistivity anomaly and phase transition of Pb _1-x Ge _x Se
journal, July 1985

Phase Transition in SnTe with Low Carrier Concentration
journal, February 1975

Nearly ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity
journal, August 2019

Superconducting Fluctuation Effects on the Spin-Lattice Relaxation Rate in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.95}$
journal, March 1999

Magneto-optical investigations of phase-transition-induced band-structure changes of ${Pb}_{1 - x}$ ${Ge}_{x}$ Te
journal, June 1985

Surface-state-dominated transport in crystals of the topological crystalline insulator In-doped ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x} Te$
journal, May 2015

Weak antilocalization beyond the fully diffusive regime in ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x} Se$ topological quantum wells
journal, October 2020

Superconducting fluctuation conductivity in a magnetic field in two dimensions
journal, January 1985

Giant Rashba Splitting in Pb _1- _x Sn _x Te (111) Topological Crystalline Insulator Films Controlled by Bi Doping in the Bulk
journal, November 2016

Microwave, Flux Flow, and Fluctuation Resistance of Dirty Type-II Superconductors
journal, January 1970

Superconductivity in ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ and its Implications for Pairing in the Undoped Topological Insulator
journal, February 2010

Topological crystalline insulators in the SnTe material class
journal, January 2012

Two types of Dirac-cone surface states on the (111) surface of the topological crystalline insulator SnTe
journal, December 2013

Broken time-reversal symmetry in the topological superconductor UPt3
journal, March 2020

Highly Tunable Berry Phase and Ambipolar Field Effect in Topological Crystalline Insulator Pb _{1– x} Sn _x Se
journal, February 2015

Quantum corrections to the resistance in two-dimensional disordered superconductors above $T_{c}$ : Al, Sn, and amorphous ${Bi}_{0.9}$ ${Tl}_{0.1}$ films
journal, June 1984

Competition between Weak Localization and Antilocalization in Topological Surface States
journal, August 2011

Josephson detection of time-reversal symmetry broken superconductivity in SnTe nanowires
journal, June 2021

Raman observation of the ferroelectric phase transition in SnTe
journal, February 1974

Nodeless superconducting gap in the candidate topological superconductor ${Sn}_{1 - x} {In}_{x} Te$ for $x = 0.7$
journal, March 2020

Anomalous resistivity near the ferroelectric phase transition in (Pb, Ge, Sn)Te alloy semiconductors
journal, October 1979

Robust weak antilocalization due to spin-orbital entanglement in Dirac material Sr3SnO
journal, March 2020

Revealing Surface States in In-Doped SnTe Nanoplates with Low Bulk Mobility
journal, May 2015

Spin-orbit-split subbands in IV-VI asymmetric quantum wells
journal, November 2003

Fully gapped superconductivity in In-doped topological crystalline insulator ${Pb}_{0.5} {Sn}_{0.5} Te$
journal, July 2015

Superconductivity-localization interplay and fluctuation magnetoresistance in epitaxial BaPb 1 − x Bi x O 3 thin films
journal, April 2018

Superconducting thin films of (100) and (111) oriented indium doped topological crystalline insulator SnTe
journal, August 2015

An unusual continuous paramagnetic-limited superconducting phase transition in 2D NbSe 2
journal, April 2018

Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond
journal, January 2006

Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids
journal, January 2018

Weak localization in thin films
journal, May 1984

Magnetoresistance in Si metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transitors: Evidence of weak localization and correlation
journal, July 1982

Electron and hole contributions to normal-state transport in the superconducting system ${Sn}_{1 - x} {In}_{x} Te$
journal, August 2018

The role of density of states fluctuations in the normal state properties of high T _c superconductors
journal, November 1999

Odd-parity superconductivity from phonon-mediated pairing: Application to ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$
journal, November 2014

Possible Topological Superconducting Phases of ${MoS}_{2}$
journal, August 2014

Enhanced superconducting pairing interaction in indium-doped tin telluride
journal, January 2009

Colloquium: Topological insulators
journal, November 2010

Gapless Andreev bound states in the quantum spin Hall insulator HgTe
journal, August 2016

Experimental realization of a topological crystalline insulator in SnTe
journal, September 2012

Anomalous composition dependence of the superconductivity in In-doped SnTe
journal, January 2016

Spin-Orbit Interaction and Magnetoresistance in the Two Dimensional Random System
journal, February 1980

Effects of electron-electron collisions with small energy transfers on quantum localisation
journal, December 1982

Weak-localization, Aslamazov-Larkin, and Maki-Thompson superconducting fluctuation effects in disordered ${Zr}_{1 - x} {Rh}_{x}$ films above $T_{c}$
journal, September 1997

Optimizing the superconducting transition temperature and upper critical field of Sn $_{1 - x}$ In $_{x}$ Te
journal, July 2013

Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator
journal, March 2008

Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation
journal, October 2015

Engineering relativistic effects in ferroelectric SnTe
journal, October 2014

Superconductivity, pairing symmetry, and disorder in the doped topological insulator ${Sn}_{1 - x} {In}_{x} Te$ for $x \geq 0.10$
journal, January 2018

Recent experimental studies of electron dephasing in metal and semiconductor mesoscopic structures
journal, April 2002

Giant superconducting fluctuations in the compensated semimetal FeSe at the BCS–BEC crossover
journal, September 2016

Effect of superconducting fluctuations on the transverse resistance of high- $T_{c}$ superconductors
journal, April 1993

Topological superconductivity in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
journal, April 2017

Topological superconductors: a review
journal, May 2017

Pseudogap in a thin film of a conventional superconductor
journal, December 2010

Two-dimensional fluctuation-induced conductivity above the critical temperature
journal, September 1977

The influence of fluctuation pairing of electrons on the conductivity of normal metal
journal, February 1968

Fluctuation conductivity of layered superconductors in a perpendicular magnetic field
journal, November 1993

Anomalous magnetoresistance in 2D Pd and PdHx films
journal, January 1985

Weak-link Josephson Junctions Made from Topological Crystalline Insulators
journal, August 2018

Quasiparticle lifetime in disordered two-dimensional metals
journal, December 1981