Superconducting fluctuations in organic molecular metals enhanced by Mott criticality
Résumé
Unconventional supercond. typically occurs in materials in which a small change of a parameter such as bandwidth or doping leads to antiferromagnetic or Mott insulating phases. As such competing phases are approached, the properties of the superconductor often become increasingly exotic. For example, in org. superconductors and underdoped high-Tc cuprate superconductors a fluctuating superconducting state persists to temps. significantly above Tc. By studying alloys of quasi-two-dimensional org. mol. metals in the κ-(BEDT-TTF)2X family, we reveal how the Nernst effect, a sensitive probe of superconducting phase fluctuations, evolves in the regime of extreme Mott criticality. We find strong evidence that, as the phase diagram is traversed through supercond. towards the Mott state, the temp. scale for superconducting fluctuations increases dramatically, eventually approaching the temp. at which quasiparticles become identifiable at all.
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