Absence of a Zero Temperature Vortex Solid Phase in Strongly Disordered Superconducting Bi Films
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- 22 September 1999
Abstract
We present low temperature measurements of the resistance in magnetic field of superconducting ultrathin amorphous Bi films with normal state sheet resistances, $R_N$, near the resistance quantum, $R_Q={\hbar\over {e^2}}$. For $R_NR_Q$ there is no vortex solid and, hence, no zero resistance state in magnetic field. We describe how disorder induced quantum and/or mesoscopic fluctuations can eliminate the vortex solid and also discuss implications for the magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-insulator transition.
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- Version 1, 1999-09-22, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review B, 61 (14), R9245.
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