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SCIENCE
Volume 316, Issue 5831, Pages 1594-1597Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1142159
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Quantum confinement of itinerant electrons in atomically smooth ultrathin lead films produces strong oscillations in the thickness-dependent film energy. By adding extra electrons via bismuth alloying, we showed that both the structural stability and the superconducting properties of such films can be tuned. The phase boundary ( upper critical field) between the superconducting vortex state and the normal state indicates an anomalous suppression of superconducting order just below the critical temperature, T(c). This suppression varies systematically with the film thickness and the bismuth content and can be parametrized in terms of a characteristic temperature, T(c)* ( less than T(c)), that is inversely proportional to the scattering mean free path. The results indicate that the isotropic nature of the superconductive pairing in bulk lead-bismuth alloys is altered in the quantum regime.
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