Tunable quantum critical point and detached superconductivity in Al-doped CrAs

Park, Sungmin; Shin, Soohyeon; Kim, Sung-Il; Kim, Suyoung; Park, Chan-Koo; Thompson, Joe D.; Park, Tuson

doi:10.1038/s41535-019-0188-6

Title: Tunable quantum critical point and detached superconductivity in Al-doped CrAs

Journal Article · Thu Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · npj Quantum Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-019-0188-6· OSTI ID:1565886

Park, Sungmin ^[1]; Shin, Soohyeon ^[1]; Kim, Sung-Il ^[1]; Kim, Suyoung ^[1]; Park, Chan-Koo ^[1]; Thompson, Joe D. ^[2]; Park, Tuson ^[1]

Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (South Korea). Center for Quantum Materials and Superconductivity (CQMS) & Dept. of Physics
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The origin of unconventional superconductivity and its relationship to a T = 0 K quantum critical point (QCP), which is hidden inside the dome of a superconducting state, have long been an outstanding puzzle in strongly correlated superconductors. The observation and tuning of the hidden QCP, which is key to resolving the mystery, however, has been rarely reported. Here we report the controlling of a hidden QCP in the helical antiferromagnet CrAs and separation of the tuned QCP from the pressure-induced superconducting phase. The Al doping in CrAs increases the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature T_N from 265 to 275 K, while it suppresses the QCP from 8 to 4.5 kbar. Pressure-induced superconductivity in the high-pressure regime is almost independent of Al doping, but superconductivity below 6 kbar is suppressed, revealing the clear separation between the tuned antiferromagnetic QCP and T_c maximum. These discoveries illustrate subtleties in the interplay between superconductivity and quantum criticality and warrant a deeper insight in understanding of unconventional superconductivity.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1565886

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-22403; TRN: US2000927

Journal Information:: npj Quantum Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 1; ISSN 2397-4648

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