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    Percolative pathway to stripe order in KTaO3-based superconductivity

    Zhihao Chen1,2,*, Chun Sum Brian Pang3,4,*, Meng Yang1,*, Yuxin Wang1, Huaiyuan Wang5, He Zheng5, Kun Jiang1,2, Bruce A. Davidson3,4, Ilya Elfimov3,4 et al.

    George A. Sawatzky3,4, Andrea Damascelli3,4, Ke Zou3,4,†, and Zhi Gang Cheng1,2,‡

    • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • †Contact author: kzou@phas.ubc.ca
    • ‡Contact author: zgcheng@iphy.ac.cn

    Phys. Rev. B 113, 245115 – Published 5 June, 2026

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/pc8v-dlhq

    Abstract

    The sensitivity of low-dimensional superconductors to fluctuations gives rise to emergent behaviors beyond the conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer framework. Anisotropy is one such manifestation often linked to spatially modulated electronic responses and unconventional pairing mechanisms. Pronounced in-plane anisotropy recently reported at KTaO3-based oxide interfaces has been interpreted as indicative of a stripelike superconducting texture, yet its microscopic origin and formation pathway remain unresolved. Here, we show that disorder in MgO/KTaO3(111) heterostructures broadens the superconducting transition and reveals transport signatures suggesting a percolative evolution from localized superconducting coherence to a stripelike texture. The stripe width extracted from vortex-dynamical responses is comparable to the spin precession length, suggesting a self-organized modulation influenced by spin-orbit coupling and reduced lattice symmetry. These results highlight disorder as a tuning parameter for superconductivity in two-dimensional quantum materials.

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