Polar charge density wave in a superconductor with crystallographic chirality

Shangfei Wu (), Fei-Ting Huang, Xianghan Xu, Ethan T. Ritz, Turan Birol (), Sang-Wook Cheong () and Girsh Blumberg ()
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Shangfei Wu: Rutgers University
Fei-Ting Huang: Rutgers University
Xianghan Xu: Rutgers University
Ethan T. Ritz: University of Minnesota
Turan Birol: University of Minnesota
Sang-Wook Cheong: Rutgers University
Girsh Blumberg: Rutgers University

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Symmetry plays an important role in determining the physical properties in condensed matter physics, as the symmetry operations of any physical property must include the symmetry operations of the point group of the crystal. As a consequence, crystallographic polarity and chirality are expected to have an impact on the Cooper pairing in a superconductor. While superconductivity with crystallographic polarity and chirality have both been found in a few crystalline phases separately; however, their coexistence and material realizations have not been studied. Here, by utilizing transport, Raman scattering, and transmission electron microscopy, we unveil a unique realization of superconductivity in single-crystalline Mo3Al2C (superconducting Tc=8 K) with a polar charge-density-wave phase and well-defined crystallographic chirality. We show that the intriguing charge density wave order leads to a noncentrosymmetric-nonpolar to polar transition below T*=155K via breaking both the translational and rotational symmetries. Superconductivity emerges in this polar and chiral crystal structure below Tc=8 K. Our results establish that Mo3Al2C is a superconductor with crystallographic polarity and chirality simultaneously, and motivate future studies of unconventional superconductivity in this category.

Date: 2024
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