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Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Volume 10, 2019

Metallicity and Superconductivity in Doped Strontium Titanate

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.

Keyword(s): ferroelectricity, metal-insulator transition, polarons, quantum criticality, superfluid density
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Metallicity and Superconductivity in Doped Strontium Titanate
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