Localization of preformed Cooper pairs in disordered superconductors

By B. Sacépé, Thomas Dubouchet, C. Chapelier, Marc, Sanquer, M. Ovadia, D. Shahar, M. Feigel'man, L. Ioffe. 2010

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Disorder leads to localization of electrons at low temperatures, changing metals to insulators. In a superconductor the electrons are paired up, and scanning tunnelling microscopy shows that the pairs localize together rather than breaking up and forming localized single electrons in the insulating state.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Remarkable effects of disorder on superconductivity of single atomic layers of lead on silicon (2014, unknown): “tend to destroy superconductivity [2–7].”
• Single-electron current sources: towards a refined definition of ampere (2012, background): “Formation of isolated superconducting regions within a nominally uniform disordered film was confirmed experimentally (Sacépé et al., 2010, 2011).”
• Quantum algorithms to simulate many-body physics of correlated fermions. (2017, background): “At low temperatures, impurities and disorder can induce a metal-to-insulator transition by localizing the Cooper pairs [31, 32].”