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Liu, Bin; Wu, Jifeng; Ren, Zhi; Cui, Yanwei; Wang, Hangdong; Liu, Yi; Wang, Zhicheng; Cao, Guanghan, E-mail: zhi.ren@wias.org.cn2018
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[en] We report the results of electrical resistivity, magnetic, and thermodynamic measurements on polycrystalline SnSb, whose structure consists of stacks of Sb bilayers and Sn4Sb3 septuple layers along the c-axis. The material is found to be a weakly coupled, fully gapped, type-II superconductor with a bulk T c of 1.50 K, while showing a zero resistivity transition at a significantly higher temperature of 2.48 K. The Sommerfeld coefficient and upper critical field, obtained from specific heat measurements, are 2.29 mJ mol−1 K−2 and 520 Oe, respectively. Compositional inhomogeneity and strain effect at the grain boundaries are proposed as possible origins for the difference in resistive and bulk superconducting transitions. In addition, a comparison with the rock-salt structure SnAs superconductor is presented. Our results provide the first clear evidence of bulk superconductivity in a natural superlattice derived from a topological semimetal. (paper)
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/aae6fe; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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