Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1593802 | Solid State Communications | 2009 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We propose a way of making graphene superconductive by putting on it small superconductive islands which cover a tiny fraction of graphene area. We show that the critical temperature, TcTc, can reach several Kelvins at the experimentally accessible range of parameters. At low temperatures, T≪TcT≪Tc, and zero magnetic field, the density of states is characterized by a small gap Eg≤TcEg≤Tc resulting from the collective proximity effect. Transverse magnetic field Hg(T)∝EgHg(T)∝Eg is expected to destroy the spectral gap driving graphene layer to a kind of a superconductive glass state. Melting of the glass state into a metal occurs at a higher field Hg2(T)Hg2(T).
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Authors
M.V. Feigel’man, M.A. Skvortsov, K.S. Tikhonov,