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, $T_{c0}$, where the finite amplitude of the order parameter is established and the lower one, $T_c$, where the phase ordering takes place. It follows from the magnetoresistance measurements that the resistance in between, $T_c<T<T_{c0}$, cannot be ascribed to dissipation by thermally dissociated vortex pairs. So, it is not Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinskii transition that happens at $T_c$.
Citation:
V. F. Gantmakher, M. V. Golubkov, “Width of the zero-field superconducting resistive transition in the vicinity of the localization threshold”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 73:3 (2001), 148–152; JETP Letters, 73:3 (2001), 131–134