Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at Microscale and Department of Physics, and Key Laboratory of Strongly-coupled Quantum Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Feb 19;116(7):077002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.077002. Epub 2016 Feb 18.
We report the evolution of superconductivity in an FeSe thin flake with systematically regulated carrier concentrations by the liquid-gating technique. With electron doping tuned by the gate voltage, high-temperature superconductivity with an onset at 48 K can be achieved in an FeSe thin flake with T_{c} less than 10 K. This is the first time such high temperature superconductivity in FeSe is achieved without either an epitaxial interface or external pressure, and it definitely proves that the simple electron-doping process is able to induce high-temperature superconductivity with T_{c}^{onset} as high as 48 K in bulk FeSe. Intriguingly, our data also indicate that the superconductivity is suddenly changed from a low-T_{c} phase to a high-T_{c} phase with a Lifshitz transition at a certain carrier concentration. These results help to build a unified picture to understand the high-temperature superconductivity among all FeSe-derived superconductors and shed light on the further pursuit of a higher T_{c} in these materials.
我们通过液相门控技术报告了具有系统调节载流子浓度的 FeSe 薄片中超导性的演变。通过门电压进行电子掺杂,在初始超导温度 Tc 小于 10 K 的 FeSe 薄片中可以实现起始超导温度为 48 K 的高温超导。这是首次在没有外延界面或外部压力的情况下在 FeSe 中实现如此高的超导温度,这肯定证明了简单的电子掺杂过程能够在块状 FeSe 中诱导出起始超导温度高达 48 K 的高温超导。有趣的是,我们的数据还表明,在一定载流子浓度下,超导性会突然从低温相转变为高温相,发生 Lifshitz 转变。这些结果有助于构建一个统一的图景,以理解所有 FeSe 衍生超导体中的高温超导,并为进一步提高这些材料的超导温度提供了线索。