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Transport and excitations in a negative-U quantum dot at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface

Prawiroatmodjo, Guenevere E.D.K. ; Leijnse, Martin LU ; Trier, Felix ; Chen, Yunzhong ; Christensen, Dennis V. ; Von Soosten, Merlin ; Pryds, Nini and Jespersen, Thomas S. (2017) In Nature Communications 8(1).
Abstract

In a solid-state host, attractive electron-electron interactions can lead to the formation of local electron pairs which play an important role in the understanding of prominent phenomena such as high T c superconductivity and the pseudogap phase. Recently, evidence of a paired ground state without superconductivity was demonstrated at the level of single electrons in quantum dots at the interface of LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. Here, we present a detailed study of the excitation spectrum and transport processes of a gate-defined LaAlO3/SrTiO3 quantum dot exhibiting pairing at low temperatures. For weak tunneling, the spectrum agrees with calculations based on the Anderson model with a... (More)

In a solid-state host, attractive electron-electron interactions can lead to the formation of local electron pairs which play an important role in the understanding of prominent phenomena such as high T c superconductivity and the pseudogap phase. Recently, evidence of a paired ground state without superconductivity was demonstrated at the level of single electrons in quantum dots at the interface of LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. Here, we present a detailed study of the excitation spectrum and transport processes of a gate-defined LaAlO3/SrTiO3 quantum dot exhibiting pairing at low temperatures. For weak tunneling, the spectrum agrees with calculations based on the Anderson model with a negative effective charging energy U, and exhibits an energy gap corresponding to the Zeeman energy of the magnetic pair-breaking field. In contrast, for strong coupling, low-bias conductance is enhanced with a characteristic dependence on temperature, magnetic field and chemical potential consistent with the charge Kondo effect.

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2041-1723
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10.1038/s41467-017-00495-7
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  author       = {{Prawiroatmodjo, Guenevere E.D.K. and Leijnse, Martin and Trier, Felix and Chen, Yunzhong and Christensen, Dennis V. and Von Soosten, Merlin and Pryds, Nini and Jespersen, Thomas S.}},
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  title        = {{Transport and excitations in a negative-U quantum dot at the LaAlO<sub>3</sub>/SrTiO<sub>3</sub> interface}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00495-7}},
  doi          = {{10.1038/s41467-017-00495-7}},
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