1. Bosonic Confinement and Coherence in Disordered Nanodiamond Arrays
- Author
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Johan Vanacken, Oleksandr Onufriienko, Peter Samuely, Paul W May, Gufei Zhang, Zheng Xu, Johan Hofkens, Hongchu Du, Haifeng Yuan, Tomas Samuely, Victor Moshchalkov, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Liwang Liu, Jozef Kacmarcik, and Pavol Szabó
- Subjects
Superconductivity ,Quantum phase transition ,Phase transition ,Materials science ,Condensed matter physics ,General Engineering ,General Physics and Astronomy ,02 engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,Quantum state ,Condensed Matter::Superconductivity ,0103 physical sciences ,Density of states ,General Materials Science ,Cooper pair ,010306 general physics ,0210 nano-technology ,Nanodiamond ,Coherence (physics) - Abstract
In the presence of disorder, superconductivity exhibits short-range characteristics linked to localized Cooper pairs which are responsible for anomalous phase transitions and the emergence of quantum states such as the bosonic insulating state. Complementary to well-studied homogeneously disordered superconductors, superconductor-normal hybrid arrays provide tunable realizations of the degree of granular disorder for studying anomalous quantum phase transitions. Here, we investigate the superconductor-bosonic dirty metal transition in disordered nanodiamond arrays as a function of the dispersion of intergrain spacing, which ranges from angstroms to micrometers. By monitoring the evolved superconducting gaps and diminished coherence peaks in the single-quasiparticle density of states, we link the destruction of the superconducting state and the emergence of bosonic dirty metallic state to breaking of the global phase coherence and persistence of the localized Cooper pairs. The observed resistive bosonic phase transitions are well modeled using a series-parallel circuit in the framework of bosonic confinement and coherence.
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- 2017