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Superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas

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  • Philip Phillips

    (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Yi Wan

    (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Ivar Martin

    (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Sergey Knysh

    (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Denis Dalidovich

    (Loomis Laboratory of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Abstract

In a series of recent experiments, Kravchenko and colleagues1,2 observed unexpectedly that a two-dimensional electron gas in zero magnetic field can become conducting at low temperatures: the two-dimensionality was imposed by confining the electron gas to the interface between two semiconductors. The observation of this conducting phase is surprising, as the conventional theory of metals precludes the existences of a metallic state at zero temperature in two dimensions3. Nevertheless, there are now several experiments confirming the existence of the new conducting phase in dilute two-dimensional electron gases in zero magnetic field4,5,6,7. Here we argue, on the basis of an analysis of these experiments and general theoretical grounds, that this phase is in fact a superconductor with an inhomogeneous charge density.

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  • Philip Phillips & Yi Wan & Ivar Martin & Sergey Knysh & Denis Dalidovich, 1998. "Superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas," Nature, Nature, vol. 395(6699), pages 253-257, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:395:y:1998:i:6699:d:10.1038_26179
    DOI: 10.1038/26179
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