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Single crystals of In-doped PbBi2Te4 are synthesized via a conventional solid-state method. Chemical analysis and hall measurements indicate that In replaces Pb, introducing n-type carriers, creating Pb1-xInxBi2Te4. A superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Xianghan Xu , Danrui Ni , Weiwei Xie , R. J. Cava

Last year, iron was reported to become superconducting at temperatures below 2K and pressures between 15 and 30 GPa. The evidence presented was a weak resistivity drop, suppressed by a magnetic field above 0.2 T, and a small Meissner…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Jaccard , A. T. Holmes , G. Behr , Y. Inada , Y. Onuki

Searching for new superconductors, especially unconventional superconductors, has been studied extensively for decades but remains one of the major outstanding challenges in condensed matter physics. Medium/high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs)…

Superconductivity in the cuprates, discovered in the late 1980s and occurring at unprecedentedly high temperatures (up to about 140K) in about thirty chemically distinct families, continues to be a major problem in physics. In this article,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-29 Sumilan Banerjee , Chandan Dasgupta , Subroto Mukerjee , TV Ramakrishnan , Kingshuk Sarkar

We report on a zero magnetic field transport study of a two-dimensional, variable-density, hole system in GaAs. As the density is varied we observe, for the first time in GaAs-based materials, a crossover from an insulating behavior at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Y. Hanein , U. Meirav , D. Shahar , C. C. Li , D. C. Tsui , Hadas Shtrikman

Owing to extremely large band gap of 5.5 eV and high thermal conductivity, diamond is recognized as the most important semiconductor. The superconductivity of polycrystalline diamond has always been reported, but there are also many…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-04 Shisheng Lin , Xutao Yu , Minhui Yang , Huikai Zhong , Jiarui Guo

Metal/semiconductor hybrids are artificially created structures presenting novel properties not exhibited by either of the component materials alone. Here we present a giant piezoresistance effect in a hybrid formed from silicon and…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-15 A. C. H. Rowe , A. Donoso-Barrera , Ch. Renner , S. Arscott

We measured the pressure dependence of in-plane resistivity $\rho_{ab}$ in the recently-discovered iron-based superconductor Ca$_{10}$(Ir$_{4}$As$_{8}$)(Fe$_{2-x}$Ir$_{x}$As$_{2}$)$_{5}$, which shows a unique structural phase transition in…

Dense pure and doped (Mg1-xAx)B2 samples with A = Na, Ca, Cu, Ag, Zn and Al were synthesized at high pressure - high temperature in a multi anvils press (3.5-6 GPa, 900-1000C) for x up to 0.20. They were studied by x-ray diffraction,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Toulemonde , N. Musolino , H. L. Suo , R. Flukiger

We study the phase diagram of a one-dimensional Hubbard model where, in addition to the standard nearest neighbor hopping $t$, we also include a next-to-nearest neighbor hopping $t'$. For strong enough on-site repulsion, this model has a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Michele Fabrizio

Inspired by the high critical temperature in yttrium superhydride and the low stabilized pressure in superconducting cerium superhydride, we carry out four independent runs to synthesize yttrium-cerium alloy hydrides. The phases examined by…

The spin-orbit Mott insulator Sr3Ir2O7 provides a fascinating playground to explore insulator-metal transition driven by intertwined charge, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom. Here, we report high pressure electric resistance and…

We investigated electrical and magnetic properties of the electron-doped manganites Ca1-xSmxMnO3 (0<x<0.2). Our results indicate the possibility of phase separation in electron doped manganites. The compounds with x = 0.13-0.15 show unusual…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Mahendiran , A. Maignan , C. Martin , M. Hervieu , B. Raveau

Polycrystalline samples with nominal composition of Ba(Fe1-xIrx)2As2 (x=0.10, 0.15, and 0.20) were investigated by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electrical resistivity, and magnetization measurements.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 X. L. Wang , H. Y. Shi , X. W. Yan , Y. C. Yuan , Z. -Y. Lu , X. Q. Wang , T. -S. Zhao*

Superconductivity in an uncompensated boron doped diamond, a very recent observation, is strikingly close to an earlier observation of Anderson-Mott insulator to metal transition, prompting us to suggest an electron correlation driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Baskaran

The flourishing rare earth superhydrides are a class of recently discovered materials that possess near-room-temperature superconductivity at high pressures, opening a new era of superconductivity research at high pressures. Among these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-12 Yingying Wang , Kui Wang , Yao Sun , Liang Ma , Yanchao Wang , Bo Zou , Guangtao Liu , Mi Zhou , Hongbo Wang

Bi2Te3/Fe1+yTe heterostructures are known to exhibit interfacial superconductivity between two non-superconducting materials: Fe1+yTe as the parent compound of Fe-based superconducting materials and the topological insulator Bi2Te3. Here,…

We present a novel route for attaining unconventional superconductivity (SC) in a strongly correlated system without doping. In a simple model of a correlated band insulator (BI) at half-filling we demonstrate, based on a generalization of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-29 Anwesha Chattopadhyay , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Arti Garg

The preceding Comment [1], previously posted as arXiv:2312.04495 [2], on our paper J. Supercond. Nov. Mag. 35, 3141 (2022) [3] provides a welcome opportunity to clarify what we understand to be pervading misconceptions by Eremets, Minkov…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-10 J. E. Hirsch , F. Marsiglio

We report the first experimental evidence for the intimate connection between superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in Rb0.8Fe2Se2-xTex single crystal under negative chemical pressure by substituting Se with isovalent Te atoms.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-25 Dachun Gu , Liling Sun , Qi Wu , Chao Zhang , Jing Guo , Peiwen Gao , Yue Wu , Xiaoli Dong , Xi Dai , Zhongxian Zhao