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Title: A disorder-enhanced quasi-one-dimensional superconductor
Authors: Petrović, Alexander Paul
Ansermet, Diane
Chernyshov, D.
Hoesch, M.
Salloum, D.
Gougeon, P.
Potel, M.
Boeri, L.
Panagopoulos, Christos
Keywords: Superconductor
DRNTU::Science::Physics
Molybdenum Complex
Issue Date: 2016
Source: Petrović, A. P., Ansermet, D., Chernyshov, D., Hoesch, M., Salloum, D., Gougeon, P., . . . Panagopoulos, C. (2016). A disorder-enhanced quasi-one-dimensional superconductor. Nature Communications, 7, 12262-. doi:10.1038/ncomms12262
Series/Report no.: Nature Communications
Abstract: A powerful approach to analysing quantum systems with dimensionality d>1 involves adding a weak coupling to an array of one-dimensional (1D) chains. The resultant quasi-1D (q1D) systems can exhibit long-range order at low temperature, but are heavily influenced by interactions and disorder due to their large anisotropies. Real q1D materials are therefore ideal candidates not only to provoke, test and refine theories of strongly correlated matter, but also to search for unusual emergent electronic phases. Here we report the unprecedented enhancement of a superconducting instability by disorder in single crystals of Na2−δMo6Se6, a q1D superconductor comprising MoSe chains weakly coupled by Na atoms. We argue that disorder-enhanced Coulomb pair-breaking (which usually destroys superconductivity) may be averted due to a screened long-range Coulomb repulsion intrinsic to disordered q1D materials. Our results illustrate the capability of disorder to tune and induce new correlated electron physics in low-dimensional materials.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89825
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47142
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12262
Schools: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 
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