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Metallicity and Superconductivity in Doped Strontium Titanate
- Clément Collignon1, Xiao Lin1,2,3,4, Carl Willem Rischau1,5, Benoît Fauqué1,6, and Kamran Behnia1,2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1Laboratoire Physique et Etude de Matériaux (CNRS-UPMC), ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France; email: [email protected] 2II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany 3School of Science, Westlake University, 310024 Hangzhou, China 4Institute for Natural Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, 310024 Hangzhou, China 5Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland 6JEIP, USR 3573 CNRS, Collège de France, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France
- Vol. 10:25-44 (Volume publication date March 2019) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031218-013144
- First published as a Review in Advance on October 31, 2018
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Abstract
Strontium titanate is a wide-gap semiconductor avoiding a ferroelectric instability thanks to quantum fluctuations. This proximity leads to strong screening of static Coulomb interaction and paves the way for the emergence of a very dilute metal with extremely mobile carriers at liquid-helium temperature. Upon warming, mobility decreases by several orders of magnitude. Yet, metallicity persists above room temperature even when the apparent mean free path falls below the electron wavelength. The superconducting instability survives at exceptionally low concentrations and beyond the boundaries of Migdal–Eliashberg approximation. An intimate connection between dilute superconductivity and aborted ferroelectricity is widely suspected. In this review, we give a brief account of ongoing research on bulk strontium titanate as an insulator, a metal, and a superconductor.
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