Elevated critical temperature at BCS superconductor-band insulator interfaces
arXiv:2201.11614 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.224518
Abstract
We consider the interface between a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductor and non-superconducting band insulator. We show that under certain conditions, such interfaces can have an elevated superconducting critical temperature, without increasing the strength of the pairing interaction at the interface. We identify the regimes where the interface critical temperature exceeds the critical temperature associated with a superconductor-vacuum interface.
Version published in Physical Review B. Two-dimensional solutions added