Possible field-tuned superconductor-insulator transition in high-Tc superconductors:: Implications for pairing at high magnetic fields -: art. no. 107008

The behavior of some high temperature superconductors (HTSC), such as La2-xSrxCuO4 and Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+delta, at very high magnetic fields, is similar to that of thin films of amorphous InOx near the magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-insulator transition. Analyzing the InOx data at high fields in terms of persisting local pairing amplitude, we argue by analogy that the local pairing amplitude also persists well into the dissipative state of the HTSCs, the regime commonly denoted as the normal state in very high magnetic field experiments.