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Reemergence of high-T<sub>c</sub> superconductivity in the (Li<sub>1-x</sub>Fe <sub>x</sub> )OHFe<sub>1-y</sub>Se under high pressure.

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In order to elucidate pressure-induced second superconducting phase (SC-II) in A x Fe2-ySe2 (A = K, Rb, Cs, and Tl) having an intrinsic phase separation, we perform a detailed high-pressure magnetotransport study on the isoelectronic, phase-pure (Li1-xFe x )OHFe1-ySe single crystals. Here we show that its ambient-pressure superconducting phase (SC-I) with a critical temperature Tc ≈ 40 K is suppressed gradually to below 2 K and an SC-II phase emerges above Pc ≈ 5 GPa with Tc increasing progressively to above 50 K up to 12.5 GPa. Our high-precision resistivity data uncover a sharp transition of the normal state from Fermi liquid for SC-I to non-Fermi liquid for SC-II phase. In addition, the reemergence of high-Tc SC-II is found to accompany with a concurrent enhancement of electron carrier density. Without structural transition below 10 GPa, the observed SC-II with enhanced carrier density should be ascribed to an electronic origin presumably associated with pressure-induced Fermi surface reconstruction.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Nature communications
Volume
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9
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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380
Date Published
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2018
DOI
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10.1038/s41467-018-02843-7
Short Title
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Nat Commun
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