Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Using controlled disorder to probe the interplay between charge order and superconductivity in NbSe2

  • Kyuil Cho,
  • M. Kończykowski,
  • S. Teknowijoyo,
  • M. A. Tanatar,
  • J. Guss,
  • P. B. Gartin,
  • J. M. Wilde,
  • A. Kreyssig,
  • R. J. McQueeney,
  • A. I. Goldman,
  • V. Mishra,
  • P. J. Hirschfeld,
  • R. Prozorov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05153-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The interplay between superconductivity and charge density wave (CDW) in 2H-NbSe2 is still not fully understood. Here, Cho et al. use controlled disorder to probe the interplay between these two phases in 2H-NbSe2 and find that superconductivity initially competes with CDW but eventually long-range CDW order assists superconductivity.