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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 53: Poster Session: Superconductivity 1
TT 53.7: Poster
Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 15:00–19:00, P2-OG2
Ferroelectric quantum phase transition inside the superconducting dome of Ca doped SrTiO3−x — •Lin Xiao — II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 77, D-50937 Köln — LPEM, ESPCI, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
Ferroelectricity and superconductivity are mutually exclusive. Ferroelectricity implies the alignment of electric dipoles in an insulator, and while superconductivity requires pairing of mobile electrons in a metal. However, recently a number of ’ferroelectric metals’ have emerged during the past few years (See for example Nature Materials 12, 1024 (2013)). By employing a variety of experimental probes (electric conductivity, electric permittivity, Raman spectroscopy, thermal expansion and sound velocity), we find that calcium doped oxygen-reduced SrTiO3, is the first solid in which ferroelectric-like and superconducting phase transitions occur one after each order.
A variety of superconducting domes have been found in the vicinity of a competing order during the past three decades. In this context, we find evidence for interplay between superconductivity in strontium titanate and a neighboring ferroelectric order. When the ferroelectric order is destroyed by doping, the superconducting critical temperature enhances. This observation may be the first experimental signature of a role played by ferroelectric quantum criticality in the formation of Cooper pairs.