Ising superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric bulk NbSe2
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| author | Volavka, Dominik Pribulová, Zuzana Kačmarčík, Jozef Moško, Timon Stropkai, Branislav Bednarčík, Jozef Gao, Yingzheng Moulding, Owen Méasson, Marie-Aude Marcenat, Christophe Klein, Thierry Sasaki, Shunsuke Cario, Laurent Gmitra, Martin Samuely, Peter Samuely, Tomas |
| author_facet | Volavka, Dominik Pribulová, Zuzana Kačmarčík, Jozef Moško, Timon Stropkai, Branislav Bednarčík, Jozef Gao, Yingzheng Moulding, Owen Méasson, Marie-Aude Marcenat, Christophe Klein, Thierry Sasaki, Shunsuke Cario, Laurent Gmitra, Martin Samuely, Peter Samuely, Tomas |
| contents | Ising superconductivity allows in-plane upper critical magnetic fields to vastly surpass Pauli limit by locking the antiparallel electron spins of Cooper pairs in the out-of-plane direction. It was first explicitly demonstrated in fully two-dimensional monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with large spin-orbit coupling and broken inversion symmetry. Since then, several studies have shown that it can be present in layered bulk materials, too. In our previous study, we have clarified the underlying microscopic mechanism of Ising superconductivity in bulk, based on a reduced electronic coupling between superconducting layers due to intercalation by insulating layers and restricted inversion symmetry. But earlier studies suggest that in some transition metal dichalcogenide polytypes Pauli paramagnetic limit is violated even without intercalation. Here, using heat capacity measurements we unambiguously demonstrate, that the pristine noncentrosymmetric bulk 4Ha-NbSe2 polytype significantly violates the Pauli limit. The band structure parameters obtained from ab initio calculations using the experimentally determined crystal structure are used in the theoretical model which provides the microscopic mechanism of the Ising protection based solely on broken inversion symmetry. |
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| spellingShingle | Ising superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric bulk NbSe2 Volavka, Dominik Pribulová, Zuzana Kačmarčík, Jozef Moško, Timon Stropkai, Branislav Bednarčík, Jozef Gao, Yingzheng Moulding, Owen Méasson, Marie-Aude Marcenat, Christophe Klein, Thierry Sasaki, Shunsuke Cario, Laurent Gmitra, Martin Samuely, Peter Samuely, Tomas Superconductivity Ising superconductivity allows in-plane upper critical magnetic fields to vastly surpass Pauli limit by locking the antiparallel electron spins of Cooper pairs in the out-of-plane direction. It was first explicitly demonstrated in fully two-dimensional monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with large spin-orbit coupling and broken inversion symmetry. Since then, several studies have shown that it can be present in layered bulk materials, too. In our previous study, we have clarified the underlying microscopic mechanism of Ising superconductivity in bulk, based on a reduced electronic coupling between superconducting layers due to intercalation by insulating layers and restricted inversion symmetry. But earlier studies suggest that in some transition metal dichalcogenide polytypes Pauli paramagnetic limit is violated even without intercalation. Here, using heat capacity measurements we unambiguously demonstrate, that the pristine noncentrosymmetric bulk 4Ha-NbSe2 polytype significantly violates the Pauli limit. The band structure parameters obtained from ab initio calculations using the experimentally determined crystal structure are used in the theoretical model which provides the microscopic mechanism of the Ising protection based solely on broken inversion symmetry. |
| title | Ising superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric bulk NbSe2 |
| topic | Superconductivity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08867 |