Bosonic Confinement and Coherence in Disordered Nanodiamond Arrays

作者：Zhang Gufei^*; Samuely Tomas; Du Hongchu; Xu Zheng; Liu Liwang; Onufriienko Oleksandr; May Paul W; Vanacken Johan; Szabo Pavol; Kacmarcik Jozef; Yuan Haifeng; Samuely Peter; Dunin Borkowski Rafal E; Hofkens Johan; Moshchalkov Victor V^*

来源：ACS Nano, 2017, 11(11): 11746-11754.

DOI：10.1021/acsnano.7b07148

• nanodiamond
• amorphous carbon
• disordered hybrid arrays
• confinement and coherence
• superconducting order parameter

In the presence of disorder, superconductivity exhibits shortrange characteristics linked to localized Cooper pairs which are responsible for anomalous phase transitions and the emergence of quantum states such as the bosonic insulating state. Complementary to well-studied homogeneously disordered superconductors, superconductor-normal hybrid arrays provide tunable realizations of the degree of granular disorder for studying anomalous quantum phase transitions. Here, we investigate the superconductor bosonic dirty metal transition in disordered nanodiamond arrays as a function of the dispersion of intergrain spacing, which ranges from angstroms to micrometers. By monitoring the evolved superconducting gaps and diminished coherence peaks in the single-quasiparticle density of states, we link the destruction of the superconducting state and the emergence of bosonic dirty metallic state to breaking of the global phase coherence and persistence of the localized Cooper pairs. The observed resistive bosonic phase transitions are well modeled using a series-parallel circuit in the framework of bosonic confinement and coherence.

• 出版日期2017-11