Anomalously high supercurrent density in a two-dimensional topological material

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Main Authors: Zhang, Qi, Hossain, Md Shafayat, Casas, Brian, Zheng, Wenkai, Cheng, Zi-Jia, Lai, Zhuangchai, Tu, Yi-Hsin, Chang, Guoqing, Yao, Yao, Li, Siyuan, Jiang, Yu-Xiao, Mardanya, Sougata, Chang, Tay-Rong, You, Jing-Yang, Feng, Yuan-Ping, Cheng, Guangming, Yin, Jia-Xin, Shumiya, Nana, Cochran, Tyler A., Yang, Xian P., Litskevich, Maksim, Yao, Nan, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Zhang, Hua, Balicas, Luis, Hasan, M. Zahid
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author Zhang, Qi
Hossain, Md Shafayat
Casas, Brian
Zheng, Wenkai
Cheng, Zi-Jia
Lai, Zhuangchai
Tu, Yi-Hsin
Chang, Guoqing
Yao, Yao
Li, Siyuan
Jiang, Yu-Xiao
Mardanya, Sougata
Chang, Tay-Rong
You, Jing-Yang
Feng, Yuan-Ping
Cheng, Guangming
Yin, Jia-Xin
Shumiya, Nana
Cochran, Tyler A.
Yang, Xian P.
Litskevich, Maksim
Yao, Nan
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Zhang, Hua
Balicas, Luis
Hasan, M. Zahid
author_facet Zhang, Qi
Hossain, Md Shafayat
Casas, Brian
Zheng, Wenkai
Cheng, Zi-Jia
Lai, Zhuangchai
Tu, Yi-Hsin
Chang, Guoqing
Yao, Yao
Li, Siyuan
Jiang, Yu-Xiao
Mardanya, Sougata
Chang, Tay-Rong
You, Jing-Yang
Feng, Yuan-Ping
Cheng, Guangming
Yin, Jia-Xin
Shumiya, Nana
Cochran, Tyler A.
Yang, Xian P.
Litskevich, Maksim
Yao, Nan
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Zhang, Hua
Balicas, Luis
Hasan, M. Zahid
contents Ongoing advances in superconductors continue to revolutionize technology thanks to the increasingly versatile and robust availability of lossless supercurrent. In particular high supercurrent density can lead to more efficient and compact power transmission lines, high-field magnets, as well as high-performance nanoscale radiation detectors and superconducting spintronics. Here, we report the discovery of an unprecedentedly high superconducting critical current density (17 MA/cm2 at 0 T and 7 MA/cm2 at 8 T) in 1T'-WS2, exceeding those of all reported two-dimensional superconductors to date. 1T'-WS2 features a strongly anisotropic (both in- and out-of-plane) superconducting state that violates the Pauli paramagnetic limit signaling the presence of unconventional superconductivity. Spectroscopic imaging of the vortices further substantiates the anisotropic nature of the superconducting state. More intriguingly, the normal state of 1T'-WS2 carries topological properties. The band structure obtained via angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principles calculations points to a Z2 topological invariant. The concomitance of topology and superconductivity in 1T'-WS2 establishes it as a topological superconductor candidate, which is promising for the development of quantum computing technology.
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spellingShingle Anomalously high supercurrent density in a two-dimensional topological material
Zhang, Qi
Hossain, Md Shafayat
Casas, Brian
Zheng, Wenkai
Cheng, Zi-Jia
Lai, Zhuangchai
Tu, Yi-Hsin
Chang, Guoqing
Yao, Yao
Li, Siyuan
Jiang, Yu-Xiao
Mardanya, Sougata
Chang, Tay-Rong
You, Jing-Yang
Feng, Yuan-Ping
Cheng, Guangming
Yin, Jia-Xin
Shumiya, Nana
Cochran, Tyler A.
Yang, Xian P.
Litskevich, Maksim
Yao, Nan
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Zhang, Hua
Balicas, Luis
Hasan, M. Zahid
Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Applied Physics
Ongoing advances in superconductors continue to revolutionize technology thanks to the increasingly versatile and robust availability of lossless supercurrent. In particular high supercurrent density can lead to more efficient and compact power transmission lines, high-field magnets, as well as high-performance nanoscale radiation detectors and superconducting spintronics. Here, we report the discovery of an unprecedentedly high superconducting critical current density (17 MA/cm2 at 0 T and 7 MA/cm2 at 8 T) in 1T'-WS2, exceeding those of all reported two-dimensional superconductors to date. 1T'-WS2 features a strongly anisotropic (both in- and out-of-plane) superconducting state that violates the Pauli paramagnetic limit signaling the presence of unconventional superconductivity. Spectroscopic imaging of the vortices further substantiates the anisotropic nature of the superconducting state. More intriguingly, the normal state of 1T'-WS2 carries topological properties. The band structure obtained via angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principles calculations points to a Z2 topological invariant. The concomitance of topology and superconductivity in 1T'-WS2 establishes it as a topological superconductor candidate, which is promising for the development of quantum computing technology.
title Anomalously high supercurrent density in a two-dimensional topological material
topic Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11425