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Crystal stacking offers a powerful yet underexplored route to engineer symmetry in layered superconductors. Here we report superconductivity in rhombohedral-stacked NbSe2 (3R-NbSe2), a non-centrosymmetric polytype in which global inversion…

We measured the specific heat, the magnetization, and the magnetoresistance of a single crystal of ZrB12, which is superconducting below Tc ~ 6 K. The specific heat in zero field shows a BCS-type superconducting transition. The normal- to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuxing Wang , Rolf Lortz , Yuriy Paderno , Vladimir Filippov , Satoko Abe , Ulrich Tutsch , Alain Junod

We report the synthesis of single-crystal NbC, a transition metal carbide with various unusual properties. Transport, magnetic susceptibility, and specific heat measurements demonstrate that NbC is a conventional superconductor with a…

Field-angle-resolved specific-heat measurements were performed on a clean single crystal of a spin-triplet superconductor UTe$_2$ with $T_{\rm c}=2.1$ K and a low residual electronic specific heat. At low temperatures, the specific heat…

CaSb2 is a topological nodal-line semimetal that becomes superconducting below 1.6 K, providing an ideal platform to investigate the interplay between topologically nontrivial electronic bands and superconductivity. In this work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-04 Weiyin Duan , Jiawen Zhang , Rohit Kumar , Hang Su , Zhiyong Nie , Ye Chen , Chao Cao , Yu Song , Huiqiu Yuan

We report superconductivity at $T_c = 1.22$ K and magnetic order at $T_N = 1.06$ K in the semi-metallic noncentrosymmetric Half Heusler compound ErPdBi. The upper critical field, $B_{c2}$, has an unusual quasi-linear temperature variation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Y. Pan , A. M. Nikitin , T. V. Bay , Y. K. Huang , C. Paulsen , B. H. Yan , A. de Visser

We explore both experimental and theoretical aspects of the superconducting properties in the distinctive layered caged compound, Ba$_{3}$Ir$_{4}$Ge$_{16}$. Our approach integrates muon spin rotation and relaxation ($\mu$SR) measurements…

We report synthesis and properties of superconducting Bi$_2$PdPt, a new member of Bi-Pd based compounds known for their simultaneous existence of topological surfaces states and superconductivity. It crystallizes in a hexagonal structure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 A. Kataria , T. Agarwal , S. Sharma , D. Singh , S. Marik , R. P. Singh

Two superconducting phases of Re3W have been found with different physical properties. One phase crystallizes in a non-centrosymmetric cubic (alpha-Mn) structure and has a superconducting transition temperature, Tc, of 7.8 K. The other…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-05 P. K. Biswas , M. R. Lees , A. D. Hillier , R. I. Smith , W. G. Marshall , D. McK. Paul

Superconductivity was observed in certain range of pressure and chemical composition in Weyl semi-metals of both the type I and type II (when the Dirac cone tilt parameter $\kappa >1$). Magnetic properties of these superconductors are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-18 Baruch Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro , Dingping Li , I. Shapiro

Superconducting (SC) gap symmetry and magnetic response of cubic U0.97Th0.03Be13 are studied by means of high-precision heat-capacity and dc magnetization measurements using a single crystal, in order to address the long-standing question…

We report synthesis, structural details and complete superconducting characterization of very recently discovered Nb2PdS5 new superconductor. The synthesized compound is crystallized in mono-clinic structure. Bulk superconductivity is seen…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 Rajveer Jha , Brajesh Tiwari , Poonam Rani , H. Kishan , V. P. S. Awana

IrTe$_2$ with large spin-orbital coupling (SOC) shows a CDW-like first order structural phase transition from high-temperature trigonal phase to low-temperature monoclinic phase at 270 K, accompanying with a large jump in transport and…

Superconductivity, at 2-3 K, was observed in a novel phase of the ternary Li-Rh-B system. The structural phase exhibits a large noncentrosymmetric cubic unit cell with the a-parameter being within 1.208 \leq a \leq 1.215 nm. This phase is…

Mixing of spin singlet and spin triplet superconducting pairing state is expected in noncentrosymmetric superconductors (NCS) due to the inherent presence of Rashba-type antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling. Unlike low symmetry (tetragonal or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 Bhanu Joshi , A. Thamizhavel , S. Ramakrishnan

We have synthesized polycrystalline samples of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Mo3Al2C by arc and RF melting, measured its transport, magnetic and thermodynamic properties, and computed its band structure. Experimental results…

In a superconductor that lacks inversion symmetry, the spatial part of the Cooper pair wave function has a reduced symmetry, allowing for the mixing of spin-singlet and spin-triplet Cooper pairing channels and thus providing a pathway to a…

The recent discovery of superconductivity in pressure-stabilized bulk La3Ni2O7-delta, with a critical temperature (Tc) exceeding 77 K, has opened a new frontier in high-temperature superconductivity research beyond cuprates. Yet, the…

The transition metal dichalcogenide PdTe$_2$ was recently shown to be a unique system where a type II Dirac semimetallic phase and a superconducting phase co-exist. This observation has led to wide speculation on the possibility of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Shekhar Das , Amit , Anshu Sirohi , Lalit Yadav , Sirshendu Gayen , Yogesh Singh , Goutam Sheet

We observe superconductivity below a critical temperature TC = 1.8 K in single-crystal Ir3Te8, which also exhibits normal-state diamagnetism and a linear temperature dependence of electrical resistivity for a wide temperature interval, 20 K…