Vortex Variable Range Hopping in a Conventional Superconducting Film

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Abstract

We will present resistance versus temperature data from a highly disordered thin film of superconducting amorphous indium oxide that is tuned through the superconductor-insulator transition by way of a perpendicular magnetic field. In the regime of non-zero field below the critical field, the transition broadens in temperature, which is understood to result from vortex motion across the film. The temperature dependence of the resistance suggests that vortices move by 2D Mott variable range hopping over a range of fields, and several decades of resistance.

*Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMR-1263316.

Presenters

  • Ilana Percher

    • Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

Authors

  • Ilana Percher

    • Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
  • Irina Volotsenko

    • Physics, Bar Ilan University
  • Aviad Frydman

    • Department of Physics, Bar Ilan Univ
    • Physics, Bar Ilan University
  • Boris Shklovskii

    • Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
  • Allen Goldman

    • physics, Univ of Minnesota - Twin Cities
    • Physics, Univ of Minnesota - Twin Cities
    • Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota