Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Tuning Ising superconductivity with layer and spin–orbit coupling in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides

  • Sergio C. de la Barrera,
  • Michael R. Sinko,
  • Devashish P. Gopalan,
  • Nikhil Sivadas,
  • Kyle L. Seyler,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Adam W. Tsen,
  • Xiaodong Xu,
  • Di Xiao,
  • Benjamin M. Hunt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03888-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) is promising to host features of topological superconductivity. Here, de la Barrera et al. study layered compounds, 2H-TaS2 and 2H-NbSe2, in their atomic layer limit and find a largest upper critical field for an intrinsic TMD superconductor.