Approaching Two-Dimensional Superconductivity in Ultrathin DyBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-δ}. 2020

R D Dawson, and K S Rabinovich, and D Putzky, and G Christiani, and G Logvenov, and B Keimer, and A V Boris
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.

The temperature dependence of the superfluid density ρ_{s}(T) has been measured for a series of ultrathin MBE-grown DyBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-δ} superconducting (SC) films by submillimeter wave interferometry combined with time-domain terahertz spectroscopy and IR ellipsometry. We find that all films 10 u.c. and thicker show the same universal temperature dependence of ρ_{s}(T), which follows the critical behavior characteristic of single crystal YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7-δ} as T approaches T_{c}. In 7 u.c. thick films, ρ_{s}(T) declines steeply upon approaching T_{c}, as expected for the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless vortex unbinding transition. Our analysis provides evidence for a sharply defined 4 u.c. non-SC interfacial layer, leaving a quasi-2D SC layer on top. We propose that the SC state in this interfacial layer is suppressed by competing (possibly charge) order.

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