Link between the superconducting dome and spin-orbit interaction in the (111) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface


  P. K. Rout  ,  E. Maniv  ,  Y. Dagan  
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

We present the gate voltage (Vg) dependence of the superconducting properties and the spin-orbit interaction in (111) oriented LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface [1]. Superconductivity is observed in a dome-shaped region in the carrier density-temperature phase diagram with the maxima of superconducting transition temperature Tand the upper critical fields lying at the same Vg. The spin-orbit interaction determined from the superconducting parameters and confirmed by weak-antilocalisation measurements follows the same gate voltage dependence as Tc. The correlation between superconductivity and spin-orbit interaction as well as the enhancement of parallel upper critical field, well beyond the Chandrasekhar-Clogston limit suggest that superconductivity and the spin-orbit interaction are linked in a non-trivial fashion.

[1] P. K. Rout, E. Maniv, and Y. Dagan, arXiv:1706.01717 (Accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett.).