DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Superconductor–Insulator Transition in NbTiN Films

Abstract

Experimental results indicating a direct disorder-induced superconductor-insulator transition in NbTiN thin films have been reported. It has been shown that an increase in the resistance per square in the normal state is accompanied by the suppression of the critical temperature of the superconducting transition Tc according to the fermion mechanism of suppression of superconductivity by disorder. At the same time, the temperature of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is completely suppressed at a nonzero critical temperature and, then, the ground state changes to insulating, which is characteristic of the boson model of suppression of superconductivity by disorder. Furthermore it has been shown that the temperature dependences of the resistance of insulating films follow the Arrhenius activation law.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk (Russia); Novosibirsk State Univ., Novosibirsk (Russia)
  2. Institut de recherches sur les lois fundamentales de l’univers, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Russian Science Foundation; USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1461412
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
JETP Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 106; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-3640
Publisher:
Pleiades Publishing - Springer Nature
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Burdastyh, M. V., Postolova, S. V., Baturina, T. I., Proslier, T., Vinokur, V. M., and Mironov, A. Yu. Superconductor–Insulator Transition in NbTiN Films. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1134/S0021364017230060.
Burdastyh, M. V., Postolova, S. V., Baturina, T. I., Proslier, T., Vinokur, V. M., & Mironov, A. Yu. Superconductor–Insulator Transition in NbTiN Films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364017230060
Burdastyh, M. V., Postolova, S. V., Baturina, T. I., Proslier, T., Vinokur, V. M., and Mironov, A. Yu. Thu . "Superconductor–Insulator Transition in NbTiN Films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364017230060. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461412.
@article{osti_1461412,
title = {Superconductor–Insulator Transition in NbTiN Films},
author = {Burdastyh, M. V. and Postolova, S. V. and Baturina, T. I. and Proslier, T. and Vinokur, V. M. and Mironov, A. Yu.},
abstractNote = {Experimental results indicating a direct disorder-induced superconductor-insulator transition in NbTiN thin films have been reported. It has been shown that an increase in the resistance per square in the normal state is accompanied by the suppression of the critical temperature of the superconducting transition Tc according to the fermion mechanism of suppression of superconductivity by disorder. At the same time, the temperature of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is completely suppressed at a nonzero critical temperature and, then, the ground state changes to insulating, which is characteristic of the boson model of suppression of superconductivity by disorder. Furthermore it has been shown that the temperature dependences of the resistance of insulating films follow the Arrhenius activation law.},
doi = {10.1134/S0021364017230060},
journal = {JETP Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 106,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 7 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Figures / Tables:

Fig. 1 Fig. 1: (a) Image of the cross section in a high-resolution transmission electron microscope. (b) Diffraction pattern.

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Superconductor–insulator quantum phase transition
journal, January 2010


Superconductor–insulator transition in amorphous In–O films
journal, July 2000


Presence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions: Universal resistance at the superconductor-insulator transition
journal, January 1990


The Critical Fluctuation of the Order Parameter in Type-II Superconductors
journal, April 1968


Interaction Effects in Disordered Fermi Systems in Two Dimensions
journal, May 1980


Localization and interaction effects in ultrathin amorphous superconducting films
journal, April 1984


Superconducting Thin Films
journal, July 1938


The critical properties of the two-dimensional xy model
journal, March 1974


Very High Critical Current and Field Characteristics of Niobium Nitride Thin Films
journal, January 1971

  • Gavaler, J. R.; Janocko, M. A.; Patterson, A.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 42, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1659649

Superinsulator–superconductor duality in two dimensions
journal, April 2013


Granular electronic systems
journal, April 2007

  • Beloborodov, I. S.; Lopatin, A. V.; Vinokur, V. M.
  • Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 79, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.79.469

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

  • Hikami, S.; Larkin, A. I.; Nagaoka, Y.
  • Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 63, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1143/PTP.63.707

Localized Superconductivity in the Quantum-Critical Region of the Disorder-Driven Superconductor-Insulator Transition in TiN Thin Films
journal, December 2007


Phase Fluctuations in a Strongly Disordered s -Wave NbN Superconductor Close to the Metal-Insulator Transition
journal, January 2011


Destruction of Superconductivity in Disordered Near-Monolayer Films
journal, February 1970

  • Strongin, Myron; Thompson, R. S.; Kammerer, O. F.
  • Physical Review B, Vol. 1, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.1.1078

Anomalous magnetoresistance near the superconductor-insulator transition in ultrathin films of a Mo x Si 1 x
journal, August 1998


Fractal superconductivity near localization threshold
journal, July 2010


Superconducting-Insulating Transition in Two-Dimensional a -MoGe Thin Films
journal, April 1995


Ordering, metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems
journal, April 1973

  • Kosterlitz, J M; Thouless, D J
  • Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 6, Issue 7, p. 1181-1203
  • DOI: 10.1088/0022-3719/6/7/010

Dielectric properties of a disordered Bose condensate
journal, January 1986


Topological Excitations in Two-Dimensional Superconductors
journal, April 1979


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


Resistive transition in superconducting films
journal, September 1979

  • Halperin, B. I.; Nelson, David R.
  • Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 36, Issue 5-6
  • DOI: 10.1007/BF00116988

Transport measurements in granular niobium nitride cermet films
journal, August 1987


Upper Critical Field and Coherence Length of Homogenously Disordered Epitaxial 3-Dimensional NbN Films
conference, January 2011

  • Jesudasan, John; Mondal, Mintu; Chand, Madhavi
  • SOLID STATE PHYSICS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 55TH DAE SOLID STATE PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM 2010, AIP Conference Proceedings
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.3606160

Anisotropic magnetoconductance in quench-condensed ultrathin beryllium films
journal, February 2001


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


Superconductor‐Insulator Transitions in the Two‐Dimensional Limit
journal, November 1998

  • Goldman, Allen M.; Marković, Nina
  • Physics Today, Vol. 51, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.882069

Magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-insulator transition in two-dimensional films
journal, August 1990


Superconductivity near the mobility edge
journal, November 1992


Works referencing / citing this record:

Imaging quantum fluctuations near criticality
journal, August 2018


Superconducting phase transitions in disordered NbTiN films
journal, January 2020


Sign-Reversing Hall Effect in Atomically Thin High-Temperature Bi 2.1 Sr 1.9 CaCu 2.0 O 8 + δ Superconductors
journal, June 2019


Dynamical instability of the electric transport in superconductors
journal, September 2018


Figures/Tables have been extracted from DOE-funded journal article accepted manuscripts.