Unified Transport and Susceptibility Analysis of a Thin BSCCO Film: From Local Pairing to Global Phase Coherence

Santu Prasad Jana, Bismaya Ranjan Nayak, Sohini Guin +3

The superconducting transition in thin high-$T_c$ films can be significantly broadened by disorder, spatial inhomogeneity, and phase fluctuations. Here, we study the transition in…