Threefold enhancement of superconductivity and the role of field-induced odd-frequency pairing in epitaxial aluminum films near the 2D limit

Werner M. J. van Weerdenburg, Anand Kamlapure, Eirik Holm Fyhn +6

BCS theory has been widely successful at describing elemental bulk superconductors. Yet, as the length scales of such superconductors approach the atomic limit, dimensionality as w…