Monday, July 23, 2012

1207.4976 (Franco Carillo et al.)

Coherent transport in extremely underdoped Nd1.2Ba1.8Cu3Oz
nanostructures
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Franco Carillo, Gabriella Maria De Luca, Domenico Montemurro, Gianpaolo Papari, Marco Salluzzo, Daniela Stornaiuolo, Francesco Tafuri, Fabio Beltram
Proximity-effect and resistance magneto-fluctuations measurements in submicron Nd1.2Ba1.8Cu3Oz (NBCO) nano-loops are reported to investigate coherent charge transport in the non-superconducting state. We find an unexpected inhibition of cooper pair transport, and a destruction of the induced superconductivity, by lowering the temperature from 6K to 250mK. This effect is accompanied by a significant change in the conductance-voltage characteristics and in the zero bias conductance response to the magnetic field pointing to the activation of a strong pair breaking mechanism at lower temperature. The data are discussed in the framework of mesoscopic effects specific to superconducting nanostructures, proximity effect and high temperature superconductivity.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4976

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