Vortex entropy and superconducting fluctuations in ultrathin underdoped BiSrCaCuO superconductor
arXiv:2406.04665 · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-48899-6
Abstract
Vortices in superconductors can help identify emergent phenomena but certain fundamental aspects of vortices, such as their entropy, remain poorly understood. Here, we study the vortex entropy in underdoped BiSrCaCuO by measuring both magneto-resistivity and Nernst effect on ultrathin flakes (2 unit-cell). We extract the London penetration depth from the magneto-transport measurements on samples with different doping levels. It reveals that the superfluid phase stiffness scales linearly with the superconducting transition temperature , down to the extremely underdoped case. On the same batch of ultrathin flakes, we measure the Nernst effect via on-chip thermometry. Together, we obtain the vortex entropy and find that it decays exponentially with or . We further analyze the Nernst signal above in the framework of Gaussian superconducting fluctuations. The combination of electrical and thermoelectric measurements in the two-dimensional limit provides fresh insight into high temperature superconductivity.
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