We report the detection of unusual superconductivity up to 49 K in single crystalline CaFe2As2 via electron-doping by partial replacement of Ca by rare-earth. The superconducting transition observed suggests the possible existence of two phases: one starting at ~ 49 K, which has a low critical field ~ 4 Oe, and the other at ~ 21 K, with a much higher critical field > 5 T. Our observations are in strong contrast to previous reports of doping or pressurizing layered compounds AeFe2As2 (or Ae122), where Ae = Ca, Sr or Ba. In Ae122, hole-doping has been previously observed to generate superconductivity with a transition temperature (Tc) only up to 38 K and pressurization has been reported to produce superconductivity with a Tc up to 30 K. The unusual 49 K phase detected will be discussed.
The transport properties of a topological Josephson junction fabricated from a magnetically doped topological insulator (TI) were investigated. The conductance spectra of the Nb/Fe-Bi$_2$Te$_2$Se/Nb junction below 1 K showed an unusual trident-shaped zero-bias conductance peak with a tiny peak width of $\sim$ 6 $μ$V. The central peak of the trident peak presents the dc-Josephson current, and the side peaks may reflect an induced unconventional Cooper pairing. Additionally, the critical currents followed inverse to temperature, which may also reflect the presence of an unconventional proximity …
Doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$ is proposed to be a nematic superconductor originating from unusual inter-orbital pairing. We classify all induced superconducting pair correlations in Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and discover that intra-orbital odd-frequency pairing dominates over a significant range of frequencies. Moreover, we explore the contributions of even- and odd-frequency pairing to the Meissner effect, including separating intra- and inter-band processes in the response function. Contrary to expectations, and due to inter-band contributions, we find a diamagnetic odd-frequency Meissner effect.
Deciphering the Enigma of Cu-Doped Lead Apatite (LK-99): Structural Insights, Electronic Properties, and Implications for Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity
Phase fluctuations versus Gaussian fluctuations in optimally-doped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$
我们分析了最近的扭矩测量的磁化$M_d$与磁场$H$在最佳掺杂的YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{7-y}$（OPT YBCO），以反对最近的建议由雷伊等人，以上$T_c$的磁化结果是一致的高斯波动。我们发现，尽管其强的层间耦合，OPT YBCO显示出一个异常的非单调依赖的$M_d$ $H$代表的对波函数相位$θ_n$锁定在$T_c$和随后的解锁由一个相对较弱的$H$的直接证据。这些不寻常的特征表征了铜氧化物超导体向迈斯纳态转变的不寻常性质。据我们所知，它们在低$T_c$超导体中是不存在的。我们还强调了涡旋液态的重要性，以及熔化场$H_m(T)$和上临界场曲线$H_{c2}(T)$在$T$-$H$平面上的分布。与Rey等人的说法相反，我们表明磁化强度和能斯特信号的曲线说明了$T_c$附近的$H_{c2}$线的不可接近性。Rey等人对$H_{c2}$系的预测在OPT YBCO中无效。
We report a high-throughput ab-initio study of the thermodynamic and superconducting proper- ties of the recently synthesized XB$_3$C$_3$ clathrates. These compounds, in which boron and carbon form a sponge-like network of interconnected cages each enclosing a central X atom, are attractive candidates to achieve high-Tc conventional superconductivity at ambient pressure, due to the simultaneous presence of a stiff B-C covalent network and a tunable charge reservoir, provided by the guest atom. Ternary compounds like CaB$_3$C$_3$, SrB$_3$C$_3$ and BaB$_3$C$_3$ are predicted to exhibit T$_c$ $\l…
Atomically-flat, chemically-stable, superconducting epitaxial thin film of iron-based superconductor, cobalt-doped BaFe$_2$As$_2$
最近报道了诸如Co掺杂的SrFe $_2$ As $_2$（SrFe $_2$ As $_2$：Co）的Fe基超导体的外延生长，但是由于它们具有粗糙的表面并且通过与环境大气中的水蒸气的反应而分解，因此对于器件应用而言仍然具有不足的性能。本文报道了在700 ℃下生长的Co掺杂BaFe $_2$ As $_2$外延膜的超导转变起始温度为20 K。该转变比在SrFe $_2$ As $_2$：Co膜上观察到的转变更尖锐，这将源于它们改进的结晶度。这些薄膜还具有原子级平坦的表面，具有台阶和露台结构，并表现出抗水蒸气暴露的化学稳定性。
Using a new two-step synthesis method - ultrasound treatment and low temperature annealing, we explore superconductivity in potassium-doped triphenylbismuth, which is composed of one bismuth atom and three phenyl rings. The combination of dc and ac magnetic measurements reveals that one hundred percent of synthesized samples exhibit superconductivity at 3.5 K and/or 7.2 K at ambient pressure. The magnetization hysteresis loops provide a strong evidence of type-II superconductor, with the upper critical magnetic field up to 1.0 Tesla. Both calculated electronic structure and measured Raman spec…
In-plane anisotropy of electrical resistivity was studied in samples of the hole-doped Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ in the composition range $0.21 \leq x \leq 0.26$ where anisotropy changes sign. Low-temperature ($\sim$20~K) irradiation with relativistic 2.5 MeV electrons was used to control the level of disorder and residual resistivity of the samples. Modification of the stress-detwinning technique enabled measurements of the same samples before and after irradiation, leading to conclusion of anisotropic character of predominantly inelastic scattering processes. Our main finding is that the r…
The 12%-S doped FeSe system has a high Tc of 30 K at a pressure of 3.0 GPa. We have successfully investigated its microscopic properties for the first time via $^{77}$Se-NMR measurements under pressure. The antiferromagnetic (AFM) fluctuations at the optimal pressure (~3 GPa) exhibited unexpected suppression compared with the AFM fluctuations at ambient pressure, even though the optimal pressure is close to the phase boundary of the AFM phase induced at the high-pressure region. In addition, we revealed that the SC phase at an applied field of 6.02 T exhibited a remarkable double-dome structur…
T-carbon has been proposed as a new carbon allotrope in 2011, which was successfully synthesized in recent experiments. Because of its fluffy structure, several kinds of atoms can be intercalated into T-carbon, making it a versatile candidate in various applications such as hydrogen storage, perovskite solar cells, lithium ion batteries, thermoelectrics, photocatalyst, etc. Here we show that superconductivity can appear in Na-doped T-carbon with superconducting transition temperature Tc of 11 K at ambient pressure, and Tc can be enhanced to 19 K under pressure of 14 GPa, which results from an …
We report an original procedure for the elaboration of very high quality single crystals of superconducting HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ mercury cuprates. These single crystals are unique with very high quality surface paving the way for spectroscopic, transport and thermodynamic probes in order to understand the hole-doped cuprate phase diagram. The superconductivity transition width of about 2 K indicates they are homogeneous. Annealing allows to optimize Tc up to Tc$^{max}$ = 133 K. We show for the first time that with adequate heat treatment, Hg-1223 can be largely under-doped and its doping level cont…
Anomalous phonon redshift in K-doped BaFe2As2 iron pnictides
用红外光谱研究了K、Co和P掺杂对BaFe $_2$ As $_2$体系晶格动力学的影响。我们重点研究了BaFe $_2$ As $_2$中能量最高的面内红外激活Fe-As模$\sim$ 253 cm $^{-1}$处的声子。我们的研究表明，Co和P掺杂导致了声子频率的蓝移，这可以用掺杂引起的晶格参数的变化来简单解释。与此形成鲜明对比的是，在K掺杂的化合物中观察到相同模式的不寻常的红移，与上述解释不一致。在K掺杂的BaFe $_2$ As $_2$中的这种反常行为更可能与晶格振动和其他通道（例如电荷或自旋）之间的耦合有关。这种耦合的情况也支持的非对称线的形状和强度增长的声子在K掺杂的化合物。
We performed $^{77}$Se-NMR measurements on FeSe$_{1-x}$S$_x$, ($x$ = 0.12) up to 3.0 GPa at an applied magnetic field of 6.02 T, and found that the superconducting (SC) phase exhibits a remarkable double-dome structure in the pressure($P$)-temperature($T$) phase diagram which is hidden at 0 T. From the relaxation rate $1/T_1$ divided by $T$, $1/T_1T$, a Lifshitz transition may occur at 1.0 GPa, and the dominant nesting vector could change due to topological changes in Fermi surfaces. In other words, two types of antiferromagnetic (AFM) fluctuations would exist in the $P-T$ phase diagram. We co…
We present inelastic neutron scattering results of phonons in (Pb$_{0.5}$Sn$_{0.5}$)$_{1-x}$In$_x$Te powders, with $x=0$ and 0.3. The $x=0$ sample is a topological crystalline insulator, and the $x=0.3$ sample is a superconductor with a bulk superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ of 4.7 K. In both samples, we observe unexpected van Hove singularities in the phonon density of states at energies of 1--2.5 meV, suggestive of local modes. On cooling the superconducting sample through $T_c$, there is an enhancement of these features for energies below twice the superconducting-gap energy. We …
We study the physics of the Josephson effect in nematic superconductors with $E_u$ odd parity in the Ginzburg-Landau approach. Two-component vector superconducting order parameter makes this effect rather unusual. We get that the Meissner kernel has off-diagonal components. We derive current-phase relations for different configurations of the junction, crystallographic axes of the sample, and nematicity direction. We show that an anomalous Josephson Hall effect can be observed in such a system without any magnetization. That is, for definite orientations of the junction and crystal axes, a com…
Monovalent metals contain half filled band (HFB) of s-electrons. Emphasizing importance of Coulomb repulsions in HFB in 2D and 1D monovalent systems we sketched a theory (2018) for ambient temperature granular superconductivity reported by Thapa and Pandey (2018) in Au-Ag nanostructures (updated by Thapa et al., 2019). Sharpening our theory, we suggest that \textit{Coulomb repulsions in certain structurally perturbed regions (atomic clusters, stacking faults, grain boundaries etc.) create nanoscale reservoirs of singlet electron pairs}. These low dimensional patches are hybridized to a backgro…
Signatures of a high-temperature collective electronic phase with superconductivity-like characteristics and a giant pressure effect in networks of boron-doped ultrathin carbon nanotubes
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Toulouse, INSA Toulouse, CNRS, LNCMI, EMFL（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学、图卢兹大学、图卢兹国立理工学院、法国国家科学研究中心、低温磁强研究所、欧洲磁场实验室）；Cambridge University（剑桥大学）
