Two-dimensional superconductivity at a Mott-Insulator/Band-Insulator interface: LaTiO3/SrTiO3

Abstract

Transition metal oxides display a great variety of quantum electronic behaviours where correlations often play an important role. The achievement of high quality epitaxial interfaces involving such materials gives a unique opportunity to engineer artificial structures where new electronic orders take place. One of the most striking result in this area is the recent observation of a two-dimensional electron gas at the interface between a strongly correlated Mott insulator LaTiO3 and a band insulator SrTiO3. The mechanism responsible for such a behaviour is still under debate. In particular, the influence of the nature of the insulator has to be clarified. Here we show that despite the expected electronic correlations, LaTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures undergo a superconducting transition at a critical temperature Tc=300 mK. We have found that the superconducting electron gas is confined over a typical thickness of 12 nm. We discuss the electronic properties of this system and review the possible scenarios.

References in corpus (5)

• Magnetic effects at the interface between nonmagnetic oxides
• Photoemission from buried interfaces in SrTiO3/LaTiO3 superlattices
• Optical Study of the Free Carrier Response of LaTiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices
• The Mott insulator LaTiO_3 in heterostructures with SrTiO_3 is metallic
• Metallic interface at the boundary between band and Mott insulators

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