Field-Induced Superconductivity near the Superconducting Critical Pressure in UTe2
Dai Aoki, Motoi Kimata, Yoshiki J. Sato, Georg Knebel, Fuminori Honda, Ai Nakamura, Dexin Li, Yoshiya Homma, Yusei Shimizu, William Knafo, Daniel Braithwaite, M… 展开作者
Dai Aoki, Motoi Kimata, Yoshiki J. Sato, Georg Knebel, Fuminori Honda, Ai Nakamura, Dexin Li, Yoshiya Homma, Yusei Shimizu, William Knafo, Daniel Braithwaite, Michal Valiska, Alexandre Pourret, Jean-Pascal Brison, Jacques Flouquet
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7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
We report the magnetoresistance in the novel spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 under pressure close to the critical pressure Pc, where the superconducting phase terminates, for field along the three a, b and c-axes in the orthorhombic structure. The superconducting phase for H // a-axis just below Pc shows a field-reentrant behavior due to the competition with the emergence of magnetic order at low fields. The upper critical field Hc2 for H // c-axis shows a quasi-vertical increase in the H-T phase diagram just below Pc, indicating that superconductivity is reinforced by the strong fluctuations which persist even at high fields above 20T. Increasing pressure leads to the disappearance of superconductivity at zero field with the emergence of magnetic order. Surprisingly, field-induced superconductivity is observed at high fields, where a spin-polarized state is realized due to the suppression of the magnetic ordered phases; the spin-polarized state is favorable for superconductivity, whereas the magnetic ordered phase at low field seems to be unfavorable. The huge Hc2 in the spin-polarized state seems to imply a spin-triplet state. Contrary to the a- and c-axes, no field-reinforcement of superconductivity occurs for magnetic field along the b-axis. We compare the results with the field-reentrant superconductivity above the metamagnetic field, Hm for the field direction tilted by about 30 deg. from b to c-axis at ambient pressure as well as the field-reentrant (-reinforced) superconductivity in ferromagnetic superconductors, URhGe and UCoGe.
We show that the presence of Majorana zero modes (2D), and chiral-dispersing Majorana modes (3D), in the vortex cores of superconductors are neither sufficient nor necessary conditions for one to conclude the superconductivity is topologically non-trivial. We discuss the relevance of this result to the proximity-induced superconductivity, in the presence of magnetic field, on the surface of topological insulators.
Kagome lattice offers unique opportunities for the exploration of unusual quantum states of correlated electrons. Here, we report on the observation of superconductivity in a kagome single crystal Pd3P2S8 when a semiconducting to metallic transition is driven by pressure. High-pressure resistance measurements show that the metallization and superconductivity are simultaneously observed at about 11 GPa. With increasing pressure, the superconducting critical temperature Tc is monotonously enhanced from 2.6 K to a maximum 7.7 K at ~52 GPa. Interestingly, superconductivity retains when the pressur…
I briefly mention a previous claim of room temperature superconductivity ( arXiv:0905.3524) in Ag-based oxide material and compare their results with the most recent claim of ambient temperature superconductivity in arXiv:1807.08572. In both cases, an electrical transition to low resistance state and diamagnetism are observed. Silver is a common ingredient in both claims. Does it mean that silver holds the key to RT superconductivity or, the missing field cool data (in both reports) hint of some other physical phenomenon than superconductivity.
Superconductivity in FeSe was investigated under high pressure through the measurements of DC magnetization by using a diamond anvil cell. We successfully observed that the disappearance of the superconductivity as a results of the appearance of the non-superconducting ortho I\hspace{-1pt}I phase above $\sim$7 GPa ($\sim$5 GPa), when Ar (glycerin) is used as the pressure transmitting media. Contrary to this, it has been found that the superconductivity even survives under pressure above 7 GPa, when the thickness ($t$) of a platelet-single crystal specimen is reduced. The survival of the superc…
We report pressure evolution of charge density wave (CDW) order and emergence of superconductivity (SC) in 1T-VSe2 single crystal by studying resistance and magnetoresistance behavior under high pressure. With increasing quasi-hydrostatic pressure the CDW order enhances with increase ofthe ordering temperature up to 240K at 12 GPa. Upon further increase of pressure, the resistance anomaly due to CDW order gets suppressed drastically and superconductivity emerges at ~15 GPa, with the onset critical temperature (Tc) ~ 4K. The pressure dependence of Tc is found negligible, different from the sign…
Superconducting band stabilizing superconductivity in MgB2
结果表明，超导金属间化合物MgB_2具有狭窄的、部分填充的“超导带”，其能带结构具有特殊对称性的Wannier函数。这一结果证实了以前对许多超导体和非超导体的能带结构的观察，表明超导性显然总是与这些超导带联系在一起的。这些发现被解释在一个非绝热扩展的海森堡模型的框架。在这个新的群论模型的相关系统，库珀对稳定的约束力在狭窄的超导带的非绝热机制。超导带中库珀对的形成是由所考虑的材料中能量最低的玻色子激发介导的，该材料携带晶体自旋角动量1 x h-巴。这些晶体自旋1玻色子被提出来确定该材料是传统的低Tc还是高Tc超导体。这种解释提供了电子-声子机制，进入BCS理论在传统的超导体。
The discovery of superconductivity in the heavy-fermion paramagnet UTe$_2$ has attracted a lot of attention, particularly due to the reinforcement of superconductivity near pressure- and magnetic-field-induced magnetic quantum phase transitions. A challenge is now to characterize the effects of combined pressure and magnetic fields applied along variable directions in this strongly anisotropic paramagnet. Here, we present an investigation of the electrical resistivity of UTe$_2$ under pressure up to 3~GPa and pulsed magnetic fields up to 58~T along the hard magnetic crystallographic directions…
Hydrostatic pressure study of the structural phase transitions and superconductivity in single crystals of (Ba1-xKx)Fe2As2 (x = 0 and 0.45) and CaFe2As2
Exotic superconductivity in the coexistent phase of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in CeCu2(Si0.98Ge0.02)2: A Cu-NQR study under hydrostatic pressure
Recently superconductivity was discovered in the Kagome metal AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, and Cs), which has an ideal Kagome lattice of vanadium. These V-based superconductors also host charge density wave (CDW) and topological nontrivial band structure. Here we report the ultralow-temperature thermal conductivity and high pressure resistance measurements on CsV3Sb5 with Tc = 2.5 K, the highest among AV3Sb5. A finite residual linear term of thermal conductivity at zero magnetic field and its rapid increase in fields suggest nodal superconductivity. By applying pressure, the Tc of CsV3Sb5 increases firs…
Pressure as a clean and efficient tool can bring about unexpected extraordinary physical and chemical properties of matters. The recent discoveries of superconductivity at nearly room temperature in hydrides highlight the power of pressure in this aspect. Capturing such Tc superconductivity at atmosphere pressure for the technological applications is highly desired. The large-scale growth of diamond through the chemical vapor deposition away from the usual high-pressure and high-temperature conditions fuels such a hope. Similar to hydrides, Cs-doped C$_{60}$ was also found to exhibit supercond…
Kagome lattice systems have been proposed to host rich physics, which provide an excellent platform to explore unusual quantum states. Here, we report on the discovery of superconductivity in van der Waals material Pd3P2S8 under pressure. The superconductivity is observed in Pd3P2S8 for those pressures where the temperature dependence of the resistivity changes from a semiconducting-like behavior to that of a normal metal. The superconducting transition temperature Tc increases with applied pressure and reaches ~ 6.83 K at 79.5 GPa. Combining high-pressure XRD, Raman spectroscopy and theoretic…
Pressure tuning of superconductivity independent of disorder in Tl$_{2}$Ba$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+δ}$
在大范围内改变铜氧化物超导体的超导转变温度是确定超导机制的必要步骤。化学掺杂或元素取代已被证明是有效的，但也带来晶格无序。即使在固定的掺杂水平下，这种无序也可以完全破坏超导性。压力被认为是调整超导性的最干净的方法。然而，从最近的实验中认识到压力引起的无序增加。通过选择一个无序的Tl $_{2}$ Ba $_{2}$ CaCu $_{2}$ O $_{8+δ}$在最佳掺杂，我们进行单晶X射线衍射和磁化率测量在高压下。所获得的结构数据提供了证据的强大功能，这种材料的无序在研究的压力范围内。这一特征确保了压力对超导性的影响与无序区分开来。导出的抛物线状行为的转变温度与压力高达近30 GPa，具有最大值约7 GPa，提供了一个平台，用于测试任何现实的理论模型在一个几乎恒定的无序环境。当考虑载流子浓度和配对相互作用强度作为两个压力本征变量时，可以理解这种行为。
Topological materials which are also superconducting are of great current interest, since they may exhibit a non-trivial topologically-mediated superconducting phase. Although there have been many reports of pressure-tuned or chemical-doping-induced superconductivity in a variety of topological materials, there have been few examples of intrinsic, ambient pressure superconductivity in a topological system having a stoichiometric composition. Here, we report that the pure intermetallic CaSn3 not only exhibits topological fermion properties but also has a superconducting phase at 1.178 K under a…
