Exploring dissipation dynamics in low-dimensional superconductor

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PhD: 2023; Physics

Technological advances in the past decade in fabricating two-dimensional superconducting materials with low disorder have enabled exploring many exciting phases. In recent times, two-dimensional superconductors have been the focus of research in condensed matter physics, with theories predicting such systems to be a suitable platform to observe not only exotic phases but a medium to test several statistical phenomena which are somewhat challenging to probe in other arrangements. In this thesis, my discussion has revolved around two Type II superconducting systems in which we have investigated several low-dimensional phenomena through transport studies. Ising superconductors are predicted to host several unconventional phases through a topological pairing of electrons that arises due to spin-momentum locking. An ideal system to observe such superconductivity are the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials which show a strong Ising spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the monolayer limit owing to the lack of in-plane inversion symmetry.