Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Spiral magnetic order and pressure-induced superconductivity in transition metal compounds

  • Yishu Wang,
  • Yejun Feng,
  • J.-G. Cheng,
  • W. Wu,
  • J. L. Luo,
  • T. F. Rosenbaum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13037
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The relationship between magnetic order and superconductivity is one of the central issues in unconventional superconductors. Here, Wang et al. report a spiral spin order in MnP and trace its pressure evolution towards superconducting order, suggesting variable spiral pitch as a mechanism to tune spin-fluctuation-induced superconductivity.