Superconducting phase diagram of H3S under high magnetic fields

Mozaffari, Shirin; Sun, Dan; Minkov, Vasily S.; Drozdov, Alexander P.; Knyazev, Dmitry; Betts, Jonathan B.; Einaga, Mari; Shimizu, Katsuya; Eremets, Mikhail I.; Balicas, Luis; Balakirev, Fedor F.

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10552-y

Title: Superconducting phase diagram of H₃S under high magnetic fields

Journal Article · Fri Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10552-y· OSTI ID:1542848

Mozaffari, Shirin ^[1]; Sun, Dan ^[2]; Minkov, Vasily S. ^[3]; Drozdov, Alexander P. ^[3]; Knyazev, Dmitry ^[3]; Betts, Jonathan B. ^[2]; Einaga, Mari ^[4];

^[4]; Eremets, Mikhail I. ^[3];

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Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Max Planck Inst. for Chemistry, Mainz (Germany)
Osaka Univ., Toyonaka (Japan). KYOKUGEN. Graduate School of Engineering Science

The discovery of superconductivity at 260 K in hydrogen-rich compounds like LaH₁₀ re-invigorated the quest for room temperature superconductivity. Here, we report the temperature dependence of the upper critical fields μ₀H_c2(T) of superconducting H₃S under a record-high combination of applied pressures up to 160 GPa and fields up to 65 T. We find that H_c2(T) displays a linear dependence on temperature over an extended range as found in multigap or in strongly-coupled superconductors, thus deviating from conventional Werthamer, Helfand, and Hohenberg (WHH) formalism. The best fit of H_c2(T) to the WHH formalism yields negligible values for the Maki parameter α and the spin–orbit scattering constant λ_SO. However, H_c2(T) is well-described by a model based on strong coupling superconductivity with a coupling constant λ ~ 2. We conclude that H₃S behaves as a strong-coupled orbital-limited superconductor over the entire range of temperatures and fields used for our measurements.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States); Osaka Univ., Toyonaka (Japan)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; SC0002613; DMR-1644779; 26000006

OSTI ID:: 1542848

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1594446

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-20960

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 10; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

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