| Issue |
EPL
Volume 83, Number 5, September 2008
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| Article Number | 57005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/83/57005 | |
| Published online | 02 September 2008 | |
Nernst effect in the phase-fluctuating superconductor InOx
Laboratoire Photons et Matière (CNRS), ESPCI - 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris, France, EU
Corresponding authors: panayotis.spathis@espci.fr herve.aubin@espci.fr
Received:
14
June
2008
Accepted:
22
July
2008
We present a study of the Nernst effect in the amorphous 2D superconductor InOx, whose low carrier density implies low phase rigidity and strong superconducting phase fluctuations. Instead of presenting the abrupt jump expected at a BCS transition, the Nernst signal evolves continuously through the superconducting transition as previously observed in underdoped cuprates. This contrasts with the case of Nb0.15Si0.85, where the Nernst signal due to vortices below Tc and by Gaussian fluctuations above are clearly distinct. The behavior of the ghost critical field in InOx points to a correlation length which does not diverge at Tc, a temperature below which the amplitude fluctuations freeze, but phase fluctuations survive.
PACS: 74.40.+k – Fluctuations (noise, chaos, nonequilibrium superconductivity, localization, etc.) / 74.81.Bd – Granular, melt-textured, amorphous, and composite superconductors / 74.25.Fy – Transport properties (electric and thermal conductivity, thermoelectric effects, etc.)
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