Here, we report the discovery of superconductivity in a new transition metal-chalcogenide compound, i.e. Nb2Pd0.81S5, with a transition temperature Tc > 6.6 K. Despite its relatively low Tc, it displays remarkably high and anisotropic superconducting upper critical fields, e.g. mu_0 H_{c2} (T approaching 0 K). 37 T for fields applied along the crystallographic b-axis. For a field applied perpendicularly to the b-axis, mu_0 H_{c2} shows a linear dependence in temperature which coupled to a temperature-dependent anisotropy of the upper critical fields, suggests that Nb2Pd0.81S5 is a multi-band superconductor. This is consistent with band structure calculations which reveal nearly cylindrical and quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surface sheets having hole and electron character, respectively. The static spin susceptibility as calculated through the random phase approximation, reveals strong peaks suggesting proximity to a magnetic state and therefore the possibility of unconventional superconductivity.
@article{arxiv.1303.3193,
title = {Superconductivity with extremely large upper critical fields in Nb2Pd0.81S5},
author = {Q. Zhang and G. Li and D. Rhodes and A. Kiswandhi and T. Besara and B. Zeng and J. Sun and T. Siegrist and M. D. Johannes and L. Balicas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3193},
year = {2013}
}