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The superfluid density of overdoped La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ thin films of high quality have been measured with Tc (defined by the onset of the Meissner effect) from 5.1 to 41.6 K by Bosovic et al. Given this Tc the superfluid density shows no clear evidence of critical fluctuations and no indication of vortex unbinding as T->Tc. Nevertheless, the superfluid density displays the expected behavior for for a quantum phase transition (QPT) in the (3+1)D-xy universality class, rho(T=0)~Tc^2. However, this relation is also a hallmark of dirty superconductors, treated in the mean-field approximation. Here we attempt to clear out the nature of the suppression of ro(T) as Tc->0. Noting that for any finite system the continuous transition will be rounded we perform a finite size scaling analysis. It uncovers that the ro(T) data data are consistent with a finite length limited 3D-xy transition. In some films it is their thickness and in others their inhomogeneity that determines the limiting length. Having established the precondition for the occurrence of a QPT mapping on the (3+1) D-xy model, we explore the consistency with the hallmarks of this transition. In particular with the relations

Author

Schneider, T.

Published

2021

Language

EN