中国物理B ›› 2021, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 47402-.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/abf103

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  • 收稿日期:2021-01-30 修回日期:2021-03-04 接受日期:2021-03-23 出版日期:2021-03-16 发布日期:2021-04-02

Resistance fluctuations in superconducting KxFe2-ySe2 single crystals studied by low-frequency noise spectroscopy

Hai Zi(子海)1, Yuan Yao(姚湲)2,†, Ming-Chong He(何明冲)1, Di Ke(可迪)1, Hong-Xing Zhan(詹红星)1, Yu-Qing Zhao(赵宇清)1, Hai-Hu Wen(闻海虎)3, and Cong Ren(任聪)1,‡   

  1. 1 Physics Department, School of Physics and Astronomy, Yunnan University, Kunming 50500, China;  2 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190, China; 3 Physics Department, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • Received:2021-01-30 Revised:2021-03-04 Accepted:2021-03-23 Online:2021-03-16 Published:2021-04-02
  • Contact: Corresponding author. E-mail: yaoyuan@iphy.ac.cn Corresponding author. E-mail: cren_ynu@163.com
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774303 and 11574373) and Joint Fund of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department, China (Grant No. 2019FY003008).

Abstract: Low-frequency resistance noise spectroscopy is applied to investigate bulk single crystals of the intercalated iron-selenide KxFe2-ySe2 superconductors with different iron vacancy orders. Based on a generalized fluctuation model, the well-observed resistance hump above 100 K is interpreted as an insulator-metal phase transition with a characteristic transition energy of 0.1-0.6 eV, indicating a highly inhomogeneous energy distribution configuration. In the superconducting transition regime, we find that the normalized resistance noise scales with resistance R excellently as SR/R2Rl rs with the noise exponent lrs≈ 1.4. With reduced iron vacancy disordering in enhanced superconductivity KxFe2-ySe2 crystals, the level of resistance fluctuations is greatly suppressed, suggesting a geometrical phase transition for conduction channel, which is directly related to the microstructure of the crystals.

Key words: KxFe2-ySe2, phase separation, noise and chaos, percolation

中图分类号:  (Noise and chaos)

  • 74.40.De
74.81.-g (Inhomogeneous superconductors and superconducting systems, including electronic inhomogeneities) 64.60.ah (Percolation)