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Flux-flow instability across Berezinskii Kosterlitz Thouless phase transition in KTaO3 (111) based superconductor

Kumar Ojha, S and Mandal, P and Kumar, S and Maity, J and Middey, S (2023) Flux-flow instability across Berezinskii Kosterlitz Thouless phase transition in KTaO3 (111) based superconductor. In: Communications Physics, 6 (1).

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01251-8

Abstract

The nature of energy dissipation in 2D superconductors under perpendicular magnetic field at small current excitations has been extensively studied over the past two decades. However, dissipation mechanisms at high current drives remain largely unexplored. Here we report on the distinct behavior of energy dissipation in the AlOx/KTaO3 (111) system hosting 2D superconductivity in the intermediate disorder regime. The results show that below the Berezinskii Kosterlitz Thouless (BKT) phase transition temperature (T BKT), hot-spots and Larkin Ovchinnikov type flux-flow instability (FFI) are the major channels of dissipation, leading to pronounced voltage instability at large currents. Furthermore, such FFI leads to a rare observation of clockwise hysteresis in current-voltage characteristics within the temperature range T BKT < T < T C (T C is superconducting transition temperature). These findings deepen our understanding of how a BKT system ultimately transforms to a normal state under increasing current. © 2023, The Author(s).

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Communications Physics
Publisher: Nature Research
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to authors.
Keywords: Aluminum compounds; Current voltage characteristics; Superconducting materials; Superconducting transition temperature; Tantalum compounds, 2D superconductors; Current drives; Current excitation; Dissipation mechanism; Flow instabilities; Flux-flow; High currents; Kosterlitz-Thouless; Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition; Perpendicular magnetic fields, Energy dissipation
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2024 12:30
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2024 12:30
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/85354

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