Li Chen, Wang Yiming, Liu Ke, Jiang Dequan, Feng Jiajia, Wen Ting, Yue Binbin, Zhou Yazhou, Sun Liling, Wang Yonggang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), Beijing 100193, China.
J Am Chem Soc. 2024 Apr 10;146(14):9688-9696. doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c13503. Epub 2024 Mar 1.
Nearly a decade has passed since the discovery of superconductivity in CrAs, but until now, the discovered structure types of chromium-based superconductors are still scanty. It is urgent to expand this family to decipher the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity penetratingly. Here, we report the observation of superconductivity in ferromagnet CrSbSe with a quasi-one-dimensional structure under high pressure. Under compression, CrSbSe undergoes an insulator-to-metal transition and sequential isostructural phase transitions accompanied by volume collapse. Superconductivity emerges at 32.8 GPa concomitant with metallization in CrSbSe. A maximum superconducting transition temperature of 7.7 K is achieved at 57.9 GPa benefiting from both the phonon softening and the enhanced p-d hybridization between Se and Cr in CrSbSe. The discovery of superconductivity in CrSbSe expands the existing chromium-based superconductor family and sheds light on the search for concealed superconductivity in low-dimensional van der Waals materials.
