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PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
Volume 5, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.114802
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- Key R&D Program of Zhejiang Province, China [2021C01002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11874320, 12034017, 11974306]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0303100]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai [21ZR1420500, 21JC1402300]
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NbReSi is a noncentrosymmetric material that exhibits fully gapped superconducting state with a large upper critical field dominated by Re and Nb d orbitals. The discovery of superconductivity in NbReSi sheds light on the puzzle of time-reversal symmetry breaking observed in some Re-based superconductors.
We report the discovery of superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric NbReSi, which crystallizes in a hexagonal ZrNiAl-type crystal structure with space group P (6) over bar 2m (No. 189). Bulk superconductivity, with T-c = 6.5 K was characterized via electrical-resistivity, magnetization, and heat-capacity measurements. The low-temperature electronic specific heat suggests a fully gapped superconducting state in NbReSi, while a large upper critical field of mu H-0(c2)(0) similar to 12.6 T is obtained, which is comparable to the weak-coupling Pauli limit. The electronic band-structure calculations show that the density of states at the Fermi level are dominated by Re and Nb d orbitals, with a sizable band splitting induced by the antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling. NbReSi represents another candidate material for revealing the puzzle of time-reversal symmetry breaking observed in some Re-based superconductors and its relation to the lack of inversion symmetry.
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