Scanning tunneling spectroscopy study of the proximity effect in a disordered two-dimensional metal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Serrier Garcia, L ^a   Cuevas, J C ^b   Cren, T ^a   Brun, C ^a   Cherkez, V ^a   Debontridder, F ^a   Fokin, D ^a,c   Bergeret, F S ^d   Roditchev, D ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

^d CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; PROXIMITY EFFECTS; PROXIMITY-INDUCED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; TUNNELING CHARACTERISTICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL METALS;

LEAD; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WETTING;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84876115171     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.157003     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. P. G. de Gennes, Rev. Mod. Phys. 36, 225 (1964). RMPHAT 0034-6861 10.1103/RevModPhys.36.225
2. J.-P. Cleuziou, W. Wernsdorfer, V. Bouchiat, T. Ondarçuhu, and M. Monthioux, Nat. Nanotechnol. 1, 53 (2006). NNAABX 1748-3387 10.1038/nnano.2006. 54
3. F. Giazotto, J. T. Peltonen, M. Meschke, and J. P. Pekola, Nat. Phys. 6, 254 (2010). NPAHAX 1745-2473 10.1038/nphys1537
4. B. Pannetier and H. Courtois, J. Low Temp. Phys. 118, 599 (2000). JLTPAC 0022-2291 10.1023/A:1004635226825
5. S. Guéron, H. Pothier, N. O. Birge, D. Esteve, and M. H. Devoret, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3025 (1996). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3025
6. N. Moussy, H. Courtois, and B. Pannetier, Europhys. Lett. 55, 861 (2001). EULEEJ 0295-5075 10.1209/epl/i2001-00361-2
7. W. Escoffier, C. Chapelier, N. Hadacek, and J.-C. Villegier, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 217005 (2004). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.217005 (Pubitemid 40015711)
8. H. le Sueur, P. Joyez, H. Pothier, C. Urbina, and D. Esteve, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 197002 (2008). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.197002 (Pubitemid 351692643)
9. J. Kim, V. Chua, G. A. Fiete, H. Nam, A. H. MacDonald, and C.-K. Shih, Nat. Phys. 8, 464 (2012). NPAHAX 1745-2473 10.1038/nphys2287
10. K. Budde, E. Abram, V. Yeh, and M. C. Tringides, Phys. Rev. B 61, R10602 (2000). PRBMDO 0163-1829 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.R10602
11. C. Brun, I.-P. Hong, F. Patthey, I. Sklyadneva, R. Heid, P. Echenique, K. Bohnen, E. Chulkov, and W.-D. Schneider, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 207002 (2009). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.207002
12. See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/ PhysRevLett.110.157003 for a discussion of the shadow effect in the STM experiments, examples of 2D spatial maps of the proximity effect, and a detailed description of the theoretical model.
13. B. L. Altshuler and A. G. Aronov, in Electron-Electron Interactions in Disordered Systems, edited by, A. L. Efros, and, M. Pollak, (Elsevier Science Publisher B. V., Amsterdam, 1985);
14. P. A. Lee and T. V. Ramakrishnan, Rev. Mod. Phys. 57, 287 (1985). RMPHAT 0034-6861 10.1103/RevModPhys.57.287
15. M. H. Devoret, D. Esteve, H. Grabert, G.-L. Ingold, H. Pothier, and C. Urbina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1824 (1990). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 64.1824
16. S. M. Girvin, L. Glazman, M. Jonson, D. Penn, and M. Stiles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 3183 (1990). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.3183
17. Single Charge Tunneling, edited by H. Grabert and M. Devoret, NATO ASI, Ser. B Vol. 294 (Plenum, New York, 1992).
18. C. Brun, K. H. Müller, I.-P. Hong, F. Patthey, C. Flindt, and W.-D. Schneider, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 126802 (2012). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.126802
19. Yu. V. Nazarov, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 95, 975 (1989) ZETFA7 0044-4510
20. [Yu. V. Nazarov Sov. Phys. JETP 68, 561 (1989)]. SPHJAR 0038-5646
21. G.-L. Ingold and Yu. V. Nazarov, in Single Charge Tunneling, edited by, H. Grabert, and, M. Devoret, NATO ASI, Ser. B Vol. 294 (Plenum, New York, 1992), p. 21.
22. J. Rollbühler and H. Grabert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 126804 (2001). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.126804
23. O. Pfennigstorf, A. Petkova, H. L. Guenter, and M. Henzler, Phys. Rev. B 65, 045412 (2002). PRBMDO 0163-1829 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.045412
24. Y. Oreg, P. W. Brouwer, B. D. Simons, and A. Altland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1269 (1999); PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1269
25. M. A. Skvortsov, A. I. Larkin, and M. V. Feigel'man, Phys. Rev. B 63, 134507 (2001); PRBMDO 0163-1829 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.134507
26. A. G. Semenov, A. D. Zaikin, and L. S. Kuzmin, Phys. Rev. B 86, 144529 (2012). PRBMDO 1098-0121 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.144529
27. K. D. Usadel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 25, 507 (1970). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.25.507
28. W. Belzig, C. Bruder, and G. Schön, Phys. Rev. B 54, 9443 (1996). PRBMDO 0163-1829 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.9443
29. T. Nishio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 167001 (2008). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.167001
30. T. Cren, D. Fokin, F. Debontridder, V. Dubost, and D. Roditchev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 127005 (2009); PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.127005
31. T. Cren L. Serrier-Garcia F. Debontridder D. Roditchev Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 097202 (2011). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.097202