2025-02-03
Josephson coupling in lanthanum-based cuprate superlattices
2025-02-03 • Halima Giovanna Ahmad, D. Massarotti, F. Tafuri, Г. Логвенов, A. Bianconi, Gaetano Campi
In most anisotropic compounds such as bismuth-based layered cuprate perovskites, the supercurrent across the blocking layer is of Josephson type, and a single crystal forms a natural stack of Josephson junctions. Here, we report on the evidence of Josephson-like transport in an artificial cuprate superlattice composed of 10 LaSrCuO–LaCuO repeats, creating a superlattice of junctions, where LCO is a superconducting Mott insulator and LSCO is an overdoped metal. The superlattice has been designed with a long period …