The magnetoresistance (MR) of amorphous indium oxide films on the insulating
side near the superconductor-insulator transition was measured. Variable
range hopping is evident in the presence of a high enough magnetic field even
in the temperature range where simple activation prevails in the absence of a
magnetic field, which strongly suggests the existence of localized
superconducting granules. Consequently, junction breaking between
superconducting granules and pair breaking effects dominate the MR at low
enough temperatures. As those effects caused by the local superconductivity on
MR decrease rapidly with increasing temperature, an intrastate interaction
effect becomes significant. The observed MR is fitted to a theoretical
expression which includes junction breaking, pair breaking and intrastate
interaction terms. The temperature dependence of the fitting parameters shows
qualitative agreement with theoretical expectations.
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