中国物理B ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (10): 107401-107401.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab4047

• SPECIAL TOPIC—Recent advances in thermoelectric materials and devices • 上一篇    下一篇

Robust two-gap strong coupling superconductivity associated with low-lying phonon modes in pressurized Nb5Ir3O superconductors

Bosen Wang(王铂森), Yaoqing Zhang(张尧卿), Shuxiang Xu(徐淑香), Kento Ishigaki, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi, Jin-Guang Cheng(程金光), Hideo Hosono, Yoshiya Uwatoko   

  1. 1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan;
    3 Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan;
    4 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-06-16 修回日期:2019-08-15 出版日期:2019-10-05 发布日期:2019-10-05
  • 通讯作者: Bosen Wang E-mail:bswang@iphy.ac.cn

Robust two-gap strong coupling superconductivity associated with low-lying phonon modes in pressurized Nb5Ir3O superconductors

Bosen Wang(王铂森)1,2,4, Yaoqing Zhang(张尧卿)3, Shuxiang Xu(徐淑香)1, Kento Ishigaki2, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi2, Jin-Guang Cheng(程金光)1,4, Hideo Hosono3, Yoshiya Uwatoko2   

  1. 1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan;
    3 Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan;
    4 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
  • Received:2019-06-16 Revised:2019-08-15 Online:2019-10-05 Published:2019-10-05
  • Contact: Bosen Wang E-mail:bswang@iphy.ac.cn

摘要:

We report robust superconducting state and gap symmetry of Nb5Ir3O via electrical transport and specific heat measurements. The analysis of specific heat manifests that Nb5Ir3O is a strongly coupled superconductor with ΔC/γnTc~1.91 and double s-wave superconducting gaps of 2L(0)/kBTc~6.56 and 2S(0)/kBTc~2.36 accounting for 90% and 10%, respectively. The (Cp-γnT)/T3 vs. T plot shows a broad peak at~23 K, indicating phonon softening and the appearance of low-lying phonon mode associated with the interstitial oxygen. This behavior explains the monotonic increase of Tc in Nb5Ir3O(1-δ) by strengthening the electron-phonon coupling and enlarging the density of states at Fermi level. The Hall coefficient is temperature independent below 200 K, and changes its sign from positive to negative above 250 K, suggesting that carrier is across the hole- to electron-dominant regions and the multi-band electronic structures. On warming, the resistivity shows a gradual crossover from T2- to T3-dependence at a critical temperature T*, and a broad peak at a temperature Tp. The reduced Tc under pressure is linearly correlated with lattice parameters c/a ratio and Tp, suggesting the important phonon contributions in Nb5Ir3O as a phonon-medicated superconductor. Possible physical mechanisms are proposed.

关键词: new superconductor, high-pressure effect, strongly coupled superconductor

Abstract:

We report robust superconducting state and gap symmetry of Nb5Ir3O via electrical transport and specific heat measurements. The analysis of specific heat manifests that Nb5Ir3O is a strongly coupled superconductor with ΔC/γnTc~1.91 and double s-wave superconducting gaps of 2L(0)/kBTc~6.56 and 2S(0)/kBTc~2.36 accounting for 90% and 10%, respectively. The (Cp-γnT)/T3 vs. T plot shows a broad peak at~23 K, indicating phonon softening and the appearance of low-lying phonon mode associated with the interstitial oxygen. This behavior explains the monotonic increase of Tc in Nb5Ir3O(1-δ) by strengthening the electron-phonon coupling and enlarging the density of states at Fermi level. The Hall coefficient is temperature independent below 200 K, and changes its sign from positive to negative above 250 K, suggesting that carrier is across the hole- to electron-dominant regions and the multi-band electronic structures. On warming, the resistivity shows a gradual crossover from T2- to T3-dependence at a critical temperature T*, and a broad peak at a temperature Tp. The reduced Tc under pressure is linearly correlated with lattice parameters c/a ratio and Tp, suggesting the important phonon contributions in Nb5Ir3O as a phonon-medicated superconductor. Possible physical mechanisms are proposed.

Key words: new superconductor, high-pressure effect, strongly coupled superconductor

中图分类号:  (Superconducting materials other than cuprates)

  • 74.70.-b
74.62.Fj (Effects of pressure)