Width of the zero-field superconducting resistive transition in the vicinity of the localization threshold
V. F. Gantmakher, M. V. Golubkov
Institute of Solid State Physics RAS
142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow reg., Russia
PACS: 71.30.+h, 74.25.-q, 75.40.+k
Abstract
Resistive superconducting zero-field transition in amorphous In-O
films in states from the vicinity of the insulator-superconductor
transition is analyzed in terms of two characteristic
temperatures: the upper one, Tc0, where the finite amplitude
of the order parameter is established and the lower one, Tc,
where the phase ordering takes place. It follows from the
magnetoresistance measurements that the resistance in between,
Tc<T<Tc0,
cannot be ascribed to dissipation by thermally dissociated vortex
pairs. So, it is not Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii transition that
happens at Tc.