Superconductivity in CuxTiSe2
By E. Morosan, H. Zandbergen, B. Dennis, J. Bos, Y. Onose, T. Klimczuk, A. P. Ramirez, N. Ong, R. Cava. 2006
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Charge density waves (CDWs) are periodic modulations of the density of conduction electrons in solids. They are collective states that arise from intrinsic instabilities often present in low-dimensional electronic systems. The most well-studied examples are the layered dichalcogenides–an example of which is TiSe2, one of the first CDW-bearing materials to be discovered. At low temperatures, a widely held belief is that the CDW competes with another collective electronic state, superconductivity. But despite much exploration, a detailed study of this competition is lacking. Here we report how, on controlled intercalation of TiSe2 with Cu to yield CuxTiSe2, the CDW transition can be continuously suppressed, and a new superconducting state emerges near x=0.04, with a maximum transition temperature Tc of 4.15 K at x=0.08. CuxTiSe2 thus provides the first opportunity to study the CDW to superconductivity transition in detail through an easily controllable chemical parameter, and will provide fundamental insight into the behaviour of correlated electron systems.
Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry
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- Solids, liquids, and gases under high pressure (2018, background): “The superconductivity discovered in copper-intercalated 1T-TiSe2 (Morosan et al., 2006) through the suppression of the CDW order is interesting.”