# Superconducting Tunneling Spectroscopy of Spin-Orbit Coupling and Orbital Depairing in Nb:SrTiO_{3}.

@article{Swartz2018SuperconductingTS,
title={Superconducting Tunneling Spectroscopy of Spin-Orbit Coupling and Orbital Depairing in Nb:SrTiO\_\{3\}.},
author={Adrian G. Swartz and Alfred K. C. Cheung and Hyeok Yoon and Zhuoyu Chen and Yasuyuki Hikita and Srinivas Raghu and Harold Y. Hwang},
journal={Physical review letters},
year={2018},
volume={121 16},
pages={
167003
}
}
• A. Swartz, +4 authors H. Hwang
• Published 30 April 2018
• Physics, Medicine
• Physical review letters
We have examined the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and orbital depairing in thin films of Nb-doped SrTiO_{3} by superconducting tunneling spectroscopy. The orbital depairing is geometrically suppressed in the two-dimensional limit, enabling a quantitative evaluation of the Fermi level spin-orbit scattering using Maki's theory. The response of the superconducting gap under in-plane magnetic fields demonstrates short spin-orbit scattering times τ_{so}≤1.1  ps. Analysis of the orbital depairing…
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