本文报道了铁砷化物Ba（Fe $_{1-x}$ Co $_{x}$）$_{2}$ As $_{2}$在下（x=0.045）、最佳（x=0.08）和过掺杂（x=0.103和0.105）制度下的比热随掺杂、磁场和低温变化的研究。通过减去晶格比热，研究了电子比热随温度和磁场的变化关系。$C_{p}$的超导部分的温度和场的依赖性表现出类似的行为为所有的掺杂浓度。电子比热的温度变化以及它的场依赖性不能用一个单一的各向同性s波间隙来描述，这表明系统中存在复杂的间隙结构。掺杂依赖性的缺乏表明，间隙结构不改变作为掺杂的函数显着。我们还观察到Ba（Fe $_{1-x}$ Co $_{x}$）$_{2}$ As $_{2}$的比热中存在一个未知的剩余线性项，这表明不均匀性可能是Co掺杂BaFe $_{2}$ As $_{2}$的一个重要因素
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We report a doping, magnetic field and low-temperature dependent study of the specific heat of the iron-arsenide Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ at under (x=0.045), optimal (x=0.08) and overdoped (x=0.103 and 0.105) regimes. By subtracting the lattice specific heat the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the electronic specific heat has been studied. The temperature and field dependencies of the superconducting part of $C_{p}$ exhibit similar behavior for all doping concentrations. The temperature variation of the electronic specific heat as well as its field dependence cannot be described by a single isotropic s-wave gap, pointing to a complex gap structure in the system. The lack of doping dependence indicates that the gap structure does not change significantly as a function of doping. We also observe a significant residual linear term of unknown origin in the specific heat of Ba(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ which suggests that inhomogeneity may be an important factor in Co-doped BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$
We examine the effect of boron doping in superconducting forms of amorphous carbon. By judiciously optimizing boron substitutional sites in simulated amorphous carbon we predict a superconducting transition temperature near 37 K at 14 % boron concentration. Our findings have direct implications for understanding the recently discovered high T_$c$ superconductivity in Q-carbon.
In the present work, we report the new findings on the doping level dependence of the phase coherence between superconducting Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ (Bi-2212) grains. The experimental results from the strongly underdoped and overdoped regimes deviated from the expectation based on the doping level dependence of the superfluid density at $T$ = 0 K. These findings appear to be governed by interplay between competing orders inside the superconducting dome of cuprate superconductors. Two quantum critical points are likely to exist at the underdoped and overdoped regimes beneath the supercon…
The mechanism of formation of dome-like phase diagrams and the features of magnetic field penetration in iron pnictides with hetero- and isovalent doping are considered within the framework of the previously proposed model, which assumes the local character of doping and the cluster structure of resulted superconducting phase. It is shown that the proposed model, despite its simplicity and neglect of the features of the electronic structure, makes it possible not only to accurately calculate the positions of superconducting domes on the phase diagrams of specific HTSC compounds, but also to ex…
We report the results of our investigation of SrPt3P, a recently discovered strong-coupling superconductor with Tc = 8.4 K, by application of high physical pressure and by chemical doping. We study hole-doped SrPt3P, which was theoretically predicted to have a higher Tc, resistively, magnetically, and calorimetrically. Here we present the results of these studies and discuss their implications.
1/8 Doping Anomalies and Oxygen Vacancies in Underdoped Superconducting Cuprates
讨论了几种铜氧化物超导体的热导率（$κ$）随温度和掺杂的变化。在YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6+x}$和Hg铜酸盐中观察到的1/8掺杂附近的正常状态$κ$和$κ$在$T_c$的斜率变化的抑制值，分别归因于局部晶格畸变和超导冷凝物的抑制。这两种现象都被认为是由局部平面孔的小区域引起的，可能是相分离的表现。结果表明，$κ$的相行为反映了条纹动力学和氧空位团簇对1/8掺杂异常条纹的钉扎。
Persistence of superconducting condensate far above the critical temperature in YBa$_2$(Cu,Zn)$_3$O$_y$ revealed by $c$-axis optical conductivity measurements for several Zn concentrations and carrier doping levels
The van-der-Waals gap of iron chalcogenide superconductors can be intercalated with a variety of inorganic and organic compounds that modify the electron doping level of the iron layers. In Lix(C3N2H10)0.37FeSe, a dome in the superconducting transition temperature Tc has been reported to occur in the doping range of x=0.06 to x=0.68. We use a combination of density functional theory and spin fluctuation theory to capture the evolution of superconducting transition temperatures theoretically. We clearly demonstrate how the changing electronic structure supports an increasing superconducting Tc.…
We report the results from resistivity and magnetic measurements on polycrystalline Ce oxypnictide (CeFeAsO1-xFx) samples where x spans from 0.13 to 0.25. We find that the orbital limiting field is as high as 150 T and it systematically decreases with increasing doping. The Maki parameter is greater than one across the phase diagram and the large Maki parameter suggests that orbital and Pauli limiting effects contribute to the upper critical field. The broadening of the superconducting transition in the resistivity data was interpreted using the thermally activated flux flow (TAFF) model where…
It is known that iron selenide superconductors exhibit unique characteristics distinct from iron pnicitides, especially in the electron-doped region. However, acomprehensive study of continuous carrier doping ang the corresponding crystal structures of FeSe is still lacking, mainly due to the difficulties in controlling the carrier density in bulk materials. Here, we report the successful synthesis of a new family of bulk Lix(C3H10N2)0.37FeSe, which features a continue superconducting dome harboring Lifshitz transition within the wide range of 0.06~0.68. We demonstrate that with electron-doped…
We investigate the effect of Ni doping on the Fe-site in single crystals of the magnetic superconductor RbEuFe$_4$As$_4$ for doping concentrations of up to 4%. A clear suppression in the superconducting transition temperature is observed in specific heat, resistivity and magnetization measurements. Upon Ni-doping, the resistivity curves shift up in a parallel fashion indicating a strong increase of the residual resistivity due to scattering by charged dopand atoms while the shape of the curve and thus the electronic structure appears largely unchanged. The observed step $ΔC/T_c$ at the superco…
The effects of simultaneous Sb doping on the superconductivity of 112-type Ca1-xRExFeAs2 (RE = La, Ce, Pr, and Nd) were studied through measurements of the magnetization and electrical resistivity. In Sb-free materials, the superconducting transition temperature Tc of the La-doped sample was 35 K, while those of the Pr- and Nd-doped samples were ~10 K; no superconductivity was observed in the Ce-doped sample. Sb doping increased the Tc of all RE-doped samples: Tc increased to 47, 43, 43, and 43 K for RE = La, Ce, Pr, and Nd, respectively. We also found that the enhanced superconductivity resul…
This work presents the emergence of superconductivity in Re substituted topological Weyl semimetal MoTe$_{2}$. Re substitution for Mo sites lead to a sizable enhancement in the superconducting transition temperature (T$_{c}$). A record high T$_{c}$ at ambient pressure in a 1T$'$-MoTe$_{2}$ (room temperature structure) related sample is observed for the Mo$_{0.7}$Re$_{0.3}$Te$_{2}$ composition (T$_{c}$ = 4.1 K, in comparison MoTe$_{2}$, shows a T$_{c}$ of 0.1 K). The experimental and theoretical studies indicate that Re substitution is doping electrons and facilitates the emergence of supercond…
2H-NbSe2 is one of the most widely researched transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductors, which undergoes charge-density wave (CDW) transition at TCDW about 33 K and superconducting transition at Tc of 7.3 K. To explore the relation between its superconductivity and Fermi surface nesting, we combined S substitution with Cu intercalation in 2H-NbSe2 to make CuxNbSe2-ySy. Upon systematic substitution of S and intercalation of Cu ions into 2H-NbSe2, we found that when the Cu and S contents increases, the Tc decreases in CuxNbSe2-ySy. While at higher x and y values, Tc keeps a constant …
We investigate the origin of superconductivity in doped SrTiO$_3$ (STO) using a combination of density functional and strong coupling theories within the framework of quantum criticality. Our density functional calculations of the ferroelectric soft mode frequency as a function of doping reveal a crossover from quantum paraelectric to ferroelectric behavior at a doping level coincident with the experimentally observed top of the superconducting dome. Based on this finding, we explore a model in which the superconductivity in STO is enabled by its proximity to the ferroelectric quantum critical…
Doping-controlled topological superconducting transition in misfit layer compounds
Institut des Nanosciences de Paris（巴黎纳米科学研究所）；Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel（南特让·罗克塞尔材料研究所）；Universität Würzburg（维尔茨堡大学）；Pavol Jozef Šafárik University（帕沃尔·约瑟夫·沙法里克大学）
We explored by electronic Raman scattering the superconducting state of Bi-2212 single crystal by performing a fine tuned doping study. We found three distinct energy scales in A1g, B1g and B2g symmetries which show three distinct doping dependencies. Above p=0.22 the three energies merge, below p=0.12, the A1g scale is no more detectable while the B1g and B2g scales become constant in energy. In between, the A1g and B1g scales increase monotonically with under-doping while the B2g one exhibits a maximum at p=0.16. The three superconducting energy scales appear to be an universal feature of ho…
Doping dependence of the upper critical field in La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 from specific heat
研究了La_{2-x} Sr_xCuO_4（LSCO）单晶在高达12 T的磁场H中的低温比热（0.063=< p =<0.238）。由此我们绘制了LSCO的上临界场H_{c2}在整个超导图上的分布。发现H_{c2}具有类似于临界温度T_c的掺杂依赖性。我们讨论了这一结果的意义，并提出在欠掺杂区可能存在一个有效的超导能量尺度来控制H_{c2}的行为。
A dome-shaped phase diagram of superconducting critical temperature upon doping is often considered as a hallmark of unconventional superconductors. This behavior, observed in two-dimensional electron gases in $\mathrm{SrTiO}_3$-based interfaces whose electronic density is controlled by field effect, has not been explained unambiguously yet. Here, we elaborate a generic scenario for the superconducting phase diagram of these oxide interfaces based on Schrödinger-Poisson numerical simulations of the quantum well and transport experiments on a double-gate field-effect device. We propose that the…
In the spin-excitation-mediated pairing mechanism for superconductivity, the geometric frustration effects not only the spin configuration but also the superconducting-state properties. Within the framework of the kinetic-energy-driven superconducting mechanism, the doping and temperature dependence of the Meissner effect in triangular-lattice superconductors is investigated. It is shown that the magnetic-field-penetration depth exhibits an exponential temperature dependence due to the absence of the d-wave gap nodes at the Fermi surface. However, in analogy to the dome-like shape of the dopin…
Doping - dependent superconducting gap anisotropy in the two-dimensional 10-3-8 pnictide Ca$_{10}$(Pt$_3$As$_8$)[(Fe$_{1-x}$Pt$_{x}$)$_2$As$_2$]$_5$
Ca $_{10}$（Pt $_3$ As $_8$）[（Fe $_{1-x}$ Pt $_x$）$_2$ As $_2$ ] $_5$（“10-3-8”）超导体的特征是相对高的各向异性和超导性与结构/磁性转变的清晰分离，这使得研究超导能隙而不需要由于共存的序参数而引起的复杂化。在10-3-8（$x =$ 0.028、0.041、0.042和0.097）的欠掺杂单晶中测量的伦敦穿透深度显示出与其他铁基超导体非常相似的行为，表现出稳健的幂律，$Δλ(T) = A T^n$。指数$n$从2.36（$x =$ 0.097，接近最佳掺杂）下降到1.7（$x =$ 0.028，重度欠掺杂组合物），表明超导能隙在圆顶边缘变得更加各向异性。在基于BaFe $_2$ As $_2$（“122”）的低各向异性超导体中发现了类似的趋势，这意味着它是铁磷属元素化物中超导性的内在性质，与磁有序和超导性的共存或正常态的各向异性无关。总的来说，这种掺杂依赖性与$s_{\pm}$配对与带内排斥竞争一致。
It is shown that the bipolaron theory of Cooper pairs suggests that there is a possibility for a superconducting phase to exist at low and high levels of doping and be absent at intermediate level of doping. The results obtained imply possibly universal character of 1/8 anomaly.
Design of a 60.8 K superconducting hydride LiMgZr2H12 at ambient pressure via Lithium doping
School of Physics, Xidian University（西安电子科技大学物理学院）；College of Physics and Optoelectronic Technology, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences（宝鸡文理学院物理与光电技术学院）
We measured the in-plane optical conductivity of a nearly optimally doped (Ba,K)Fe2As2 single crystal with Tc = 39.1 K. Upon entering the superconducting state the optical conductivity below ~20 meV vanishes, strongly suggesting a fully gapped system. A BCS-like fit requires two different isotropic gaps to describe the optical response of this material. The temperature dependence of the gaps and the penetration depth suggest a strong interband coupling, but no impurity scattering induced pair breaking is present. This contrasts to the large residual conductivity observed in optimally doped Ba(…
Superconductivity in copper oxides emerges on doping holes or electrons into their Mott insulating parent compounds. The spin excitations are thought to be the mediating glue for the pairing in superconductivity. Here the momentum and doping dependence of the dynamical spin response in the electron-doped cuprate superconductors is studied based on the kinetic-energy-driven superconducting mechanism. It is shown that the dispersion of the low-energy spin excitations changes strongly upon electron doping, however, the hour-glass-shaped dispersion of the low-energy spin excitations appeared in th…
Superconducting Graphene: the conspiracy of doping and strain
石墨烯展现出了丰富的迷人特性，但也被认为不是超导体。值得注意的是，我们表明，石墨烯可以通过电荷掺杂和拉伸应变的综合作用成为传统的Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer超导体。掺杂的影响是明显的，使费米面增大，而应变的影响是深刻的，大大增加了电子-声子耦合。在实验可达到的掺杂（4 E +14 cm-2）和应变（~16%）水平下，超导临界温度Tc高达~30 K，是液氢温度以上单元素材料的最高温度。这显著地使石墨烯成为商业上可行的超导体。
Cd-doped La(O,F)BiS2 single crystals were grown using a CsCl/KCl flux. The grown crystals have a plate-like shape with ~1-2 mm square size in a well-developed ab-plane. The Cd doping in the crystals was successfully characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction and electron probe microanalysis techniques. The superconductivity of La(O,F)BiS2 was gradually suppressed with Cd doping. The superconducting transition temperature with zero resistivity of La(O0.54F0.46)(Bi0.92Cd0.08)S2 was 2.3 K. The Cd doping does not change the superconducting anisotropy so much, albeit the considerable suppres…
