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arXiv 1611.06263cond-mat.supr-con
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纳米超导体中Cooper凝聚态的相驱动坍缩

Phase-driven collapse of the Cooper condensate in a nanosized superconductor

Alberto Ronzani, Carles Altimiras, Sophie D'Ambrosio, Pauli Virtanen, Francesco Giazotto

摘要:

超导性可以理解为从不相关的电子气到库珀对凝聚物的相变,其中组成电子的相对相位在宏观长度尺度上是相干的。的相关程度量化的复值序参量,其幅度是成比例的凝聚体中的配对潜力的强度。超导载流状态与相位的空间梯度的非零值相关联。库珀凝聚体的对势和几个物理观测值可以通过温度、电流偏置、化学成分的不均匀性或施加磁场来操纵。在这里,我们显示的证据完全抑制的能隙的准粒子态(DOS)的超导纳米线的局部密度后,建立一个相位差等于π的长度尺度可比的超导相干长度。这些观察结果与金属丝中心的配对势完全崩溃是一致的,这与基于扩散系统中超导性的准经典理论的理论模型一致。我们的光谱数据,充分探索冷凝物的相位偏置状态,突出了极端的相位梯度施加对电位的振幅的深刻影响。此外,可以利用在超导能隙塌陷状态的开始附近观察到的尖锐的磁响应来实现超低噪声磁通量检测器。

英文摘要:

Superconductivity can be understood in terms of a phase transition from an uncorrelated electron gas to a condensate of Cooper pairs in which the relative phases of the constituent electrons are coherent over macroscopic length scales. The degree of correlation is quantified by a complex-valued order parameter, whose amplitude is proportional to the strength of the pairing potential in the condensate. Supercurrent-carrying states are associated with non-zero values of the spatial gradient of the phase. The pairing potential and several physical observables of the Cooper condensate can be manipulated by means of temperature, current bias, dishomogeneities in the chemical composition or application of a magnetic field. Here we show evidence of complete suppression of the energy gap in the local density of quasiparticle states (DOS) of a superconducting nanowire upon establishing a phase difference equal to pi over a length scale comparable to the superconducting coherence length. These observations are consistent with a complete collapse of the pairing potential in the center of the wire, in accordance with theoretical modeling based on the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity in diffusive systems. Our spectroscopic data, fully exploring the phase-biased states of the condensate, highlight the profound effect that extreme phase gradients exert on the amplitude of the pairing potential. Moreover, the sharp magnetic response observed near the onset of the superconducting gap collapse regime can be exploited to realize ultra-low noise magnetic flux detectors.

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