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arxiv: 1601.06053 · v1 · pith:PYJGYPUEnew · submitted 2016-01-22 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · cond-mat.str-el

Micrometer-scale ballistic transport of electron pairs in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 nanowires

classification ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el
keywords transportpairsquantumballisticelectronfieldmagneticconductance
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High-mobility complex-oxide heterostructures and nanostructures offer new opportunities for extending the paradigm of quantum transport beyond the realm of traditional III-V or carbon-based materials. Recent quantum transport investigations with LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$-based quantum dots have revealed the existence of a strongly correlated phase in which electrons form spin-singlet pairs without becoming superconducting. Here we report evidence for micrometer-scale ballistic transport of electron pairs in quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ nanowire cavities. In the paired phase, Fabry-Perot-like quantum interference is observed, in sync with conductance oscillations observed in the superconducting regime (at zero magnetic field). Above a critical magnetic field $B_p$, electron pairs unbind and conductance oscillations shift with magnetic field. These experimental observations extend the regime of ballistic electronic transport to strongly correlated phases.

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