Two component Coulomb glass in disordered superconducting films

ORAL

Abstract

We propose a new two component Coulomb glass model which includes strong disorder, Coulomb interaction, and on-site electron pairing to investigate the effects of localized pairing in disordered films on the insulating side of a superconductor-insulator transition. In particular, we show how the density of states (DOS) changes with increasing on-site coupling between electrons, from an Efros-Shklovskii linear DOS for the electrons at weak coupling, to a strongly modified, non-monotonic DOS with nonuniversal Coulomb gap for electrons and on-site pairs at moderate coupling, and finally to an Efros-Shklovskii linear DOS for pairs at strong coupling. We discuss the effects of a spatially random coupling. We use a Miller Abrahams resistor network mapping to numerically calculate resistance for samples of this model, given temperature and localization length. With certain parameter choices, we can obtain a peak in resistance with respect to magnetic field, reminiscent of magnetoresistance peaks reported experimentally.

Authors

  • Joe Mitchell

    • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Anirban Gangopadhyay

    • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Victor Galitski

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park
    • JQI, UMD
    • Joint Quantum Institute and Physics Department, University of Maryland
    • JQI, NIST and the University of Maryland
  • Markus Mueller

    • The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
    • The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics