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Enhancement of superconductivity under pressure and the magnetic phase diagram of tantalum disulfide single crystals

In low-dimensional electron systems, charge density waves (CDW) and superconductivity are two of the most fundamental collective quantum phenomena. For all known quasi-two-dimensional superconductors, the origin and exact boundary of the electronic orderings and superconductivity are still attractiv...

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Autores principales: Abdel-Hafiez, M., Zhao, X.-M., Kordyuk, A. A., Fang, Y.-W., Pan, B., He, Z., Duan, C.-G., Zhao, J., Chen, X.-J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27534898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31824
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Sumario:In low-dimensional electron systems, charge density waves (CDW) and superconductivity are two of the most fundamental collective quantum phenomena. For all known quasi-two-dimensional superconductors, the origin and exact boundary of the electronic orderings and superconductivity are still attractive problems. Through transport and thermodynamic measurements, we report on the field-temperature phase diagram in 2H-TaS(2) single crystals. We show that the superconducting transition temperature (T(c)) increases by one order of magnitude from temperatures at 0.98 K up to 9.15 K at 8.7 GPa when the T(c) becomes very sharp. Additionally, the effects of 8.7 GPa illustrate a suppression of the CDW ground state, with critically small Fermi surfaces. Below the T(c) the lattice of magnetic flux lines melts from a solid-like state to a broad vortex liquid phase region. Our measurements indicate an unconventional s-wave-like picture with two energy gaps evidencing its multi-band nature.