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This work reports superconductivity studies in the intermetallic Ti$_{0.85}$Pd$_{0.15}$ performed in normal conditions and under hydrostatic pressure. The crystal structure of the compound has a body centered cubic at room temperature and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 C. Reyes-Damián , F. Morales , Esmeralda Martínez-Piñeiro , Roberto Escudero

Measurements of temperature-dependent resistance and magnetization under hydrostatic pressures up to 2.13 GPa are reported for single-crystalline, superconducting BaBi$_3$. A temperature - pressure phase diagram is determined and the…

AgSbTe2 is a well-known thermoelectric material with a high Seebeck coefficient and intrinsically low thermal conductivity, but its behavior under pressure remains largely unexplored. Here we report a systematic investigation of the…

We observe a giant spin-orbit splitting in bulk and surface states of the non-centrosymmetric semiconductor BiTeI. We show that the Fermi level can be placed in the valence or in the conduction band by controlling the surface termination.…

Superconductivity is observed with critical temperature $T_{c}$ = 2.0 K in self-flux-grown single crystals of $CaBi_{2}$. This material adopts the $ZrSi_{2}$ structure type with lattice parameters a = 4.696(1) $\AA$, b = 7.081(2) $\AA$ and…

Through either elements intercalation or application of pressure, transition metal dichalcogenide 1T-TiSe2 exhibits superconductivity in proximity to a charge density wave (CDW) quantum critical point (QCP), thus providing an ideal avenue…

Recent experiments showed the distinct observations on the transition metal ditelluride NiTe$_2$ under pressure: one reported a superconducting phase transition at 12 GPa, whereas another observed a sign reversal of Hall resistivity at 16…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-14 Jian-Feng Zhang , Yawen Zhao , Kai Liu , Yi Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu

Recently, robustness of superconductivity (transition temperature, Tc) under high pressures has been observed in high-entropy alloy (HEA), bcc-type Ti-Zr-Hf-Nb-Ta, and HEA-type compounds (Ag,In,Sn,Pb,Bi)Te with a NaCl-type structure. Since…

Recent experiments demonstrate a "robust superconductivity phenomenon" in niobium-based alloys, where the superconducting state remains intact and the critical temperature ($T_c$) is largely unaffected by external pressure well above tens…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Adam D. Smith , Wenjun Ding , Yogesh K. Vohra , Cheng-Chien Chen

Experimental measurements clearly reveal the presence of bulk superconductivity in the CsPbxBi4-xTe6 (0.3=<x=<1.0) materials, i.e. the first member of the thermoelectric series of Cs[PbmBi3Te5+m], these materials have the layered…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-09 R. X. Zhang , H. X. Yang , H. F. Tain , G. F. Chen , S. L. Wu , L. L. Wei , J. Q. Li

We study the magneto-optical (MO) response of polar semiconductor BiTeI with giant bulk Rashba spin splitting at various carrier densities. Despite being non-magnetic, the material is found to yield a huge MO activity in the infrared region…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Demkó , G. A. H. Schober , V. Kocsis , M. S. Bahramy , H. Murakawa , J. S. Lee , I. Kézsmárki , R. Arita , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

Materials with honeycomb lattice structures exhibit unique electronic properties arising from their distinctive atomic arrangements. Their weakly coupled nature facilitates modulation by external stimuli, which leads to a diverse range of…

The recently discovered ATi$_3$Bi$_5$ (A=Cs, Rb) exhibit intriguing quantum phenomena including superconductivity, electronic nematicity, and abundant topological states, which provide promising platforms for studying kagome…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-31 Xin-Wei Yi , Zheng-Wei Liao , Jing-Yang You , Bo Gu , Gang Su

We report a comprehensive investigation of the pressure effects on the magnetotransport properties of the topological material ZrTe5 within 1 to 8 GPa pressure range. With increasing pressure, the characteristic peak (Tp) in its electrical…

Transport and magnetic studies of PbTaSe$_2$ under pressure suggest existence of two superconducting phases with the low temperature phase boundary at $\sim 0.25$ GPa that is defined by a very sharp, first order, phase transition. The first…

High pressure electrical resistance and x-ray diffraction measurements have been performed on ruthenium-doped Ba(Fe0.9Ru0.1)2As2, up to pressures of 32 GPa and down to temperatures of 10 K, using designer diamond anvils under…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-15 Walter Uhoya , Georgiy M. Tsoi , Yogesh K. Vohra , Athena S. Sefat , Samuel T. Weir

Transitions between topologically distinct electronic states have been predicted in different classes of materials and observed in some. A major goal is the identification of measurable properties that directly expose the topological nature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Jorge I. Facio , Dmitri Efremov , Klaus Koepernik , Jhih-Shih You , Inti Sodemann , Jeroen van den Brink

We report superconductivity in the ternary compound IrBi$_{0.8}$Te$_{1.2}$ with critical temperature 1.7 K. The replacement of Bi by Te leads to the metallic conductivity in contrast to the semiconducting parent compound IrBiTe. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-10 Qing-Ge Mu , Walter Schnelle , Guo-Wei Li , Horst Bormann , Claudia Felser , Sergey Medvedev

Topological superconductivity is an exotic quantum phenomenon with coupled nontrivial topological order and superconductivity together. A direct idea for producing topological superconductors is to create superconductivity based on the well…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Hao Yu , Noah F. Q. Yuan , Wei-Jian Li , Liu-Cheng Chen , Zi-Yu Cao , Di Li , Xiaoying Qin , Chang-De Gong , Xiao-Jia Chen

The rich phenomena in the FeSe and related compounds have attracted great interests as it provides fertile material to gain further insight into the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity. A natural follow-up work was to look into…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-04 T. L. Hung , C. H. Huang , L. Z. Deng , M. N. Ou , Y. Y. Chen , M. K. Wu , S. Y. Huyan , C. W. Chu , P. J. Chen , T. K. Lee