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Two-dimensional superconductor-insulator quantum phase transitions in an electron-doped cuprate

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arxiv 1507.01668 v1 pith:5OK3NQ3B submitted 2015-07-07 cond-mat.supr-con

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keywords fieldquantumelectron-dopedphasesitstransitionscriticalcuprate
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We use ionic liquid-assisted electric field effect to tune the carrier density in an electron-doped cuprate ultrathin film and cause a two-dimensional superconductor-insulator transition (SIT). The low upper critical field in this system allows us to perform magnetic field (B)-induced SIT in the liquid-gated superconducting film. Finite-size scaling analysis indicates that SITs induced both by electric and magnetic field are quantum phase transitions and the transitions are governed by percolation effects - quantum mechanical in the former and classical in the latter case. Compared to the hole-doped cuprates, the SITs in electron-doped system occur at critical sheet resistances (Rc) much lower than the pair quantum resistance RQ=h/(2e)2=6.45 k{\Omega}, suggesting the possible existence of fermionic excitations at finite temperature at the insulating phase near SITs.

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