{"id":187017,"date":"2024-04-08T20:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-spontaneous-emergence-of-1d-superconducting-stripes-at-a-2d-interface-in-an-oxide-heterostructure"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:30:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:30:01","slug":"the-spontaneous-emergence-of-1d-superconducting-stripes-at-a-2d-interface-in-an-oxide-heterostructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-spontaneous-emergence-of-1d-superconducting-stripes-at-a-2d-interface-in-an-oxide-heterostructure","title":{"rendered":"The spontaneous emergence of 1D superconducting stripes at a 2D interface in an oxide heterostructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-spontaneous-emergence-of-1d-superconducting-stripes-at-a-2d-interface-in-an-oxide-heterostructure3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research is inspired by the idea that unconventional superconductivity usually emerges in proximity to magnetism,\u201d Xiang said. \u201cIn particular, for copper-based and iron-based <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high-temperature+superconductors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-temperature superconductors<\/a>, many of the proposed superconducting pairing mechanisms are closely connected to magnetism; moreover, the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity may give birth to more peculiar phases of matter, including the pair-density-wave (PDW) order with a spatially oscillating superconducting order parameter and finite-momentum pairing which has been an intense focus of research recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EuO\/KTO heterostructure examined by Xiang and his colleagues exhibits a strong ferromagnetic proximity effect elicited by the EuO overlayer. This effect makes it an ideal platform to study unconventional superconductivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first report on the superconductivity at the EuO\/KTO interface was <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-02-two-dimensional-superconductivity-anisotropic-potassium-tantalate.html\">published<\/a> in 2021, focusing on the KTO (111) interface,\u201d Xiang said. \u201cWe have since worked on the EuO\/KTO (110) interface (considering its improved interface quality), at which we revealed the emergence of two-dimensional superconductivity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41535-022-00506-x\" target=\"_blank\">in a previous paper<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur research is inspired by the idea that unconventional superconductivity usually emerges in proximity to magnetism,\u201d Xiang said. \u201cIn particular, for copper-based and iron-based high-temperature superconductors, many of the proposed superconducting pairing mechanisms are closely connected to magnetism; moreover, the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity may give birth to more peculiar phases of matter, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}