Superconductor-insulator transition in fccGeSb2Te4at elevated pressures
/ Authors
B. Hen, S. Layek, M. Goldstein, V. Shelukhin, M. Shulman, M. Karpovski, E. Greenberg, E. Sterer, Y. Dagan, G. Rozenberg
and 1 more author
/ Abstract
We show that polycrystalline GeSb2Te4 in the fcc phase (f-GST), which is an insulator at low temperature at ambient pressure, becomes a superconductor at elevated pressures. Our study of the superconductor to insulator transition versus pressure at low temperatures reveals a second order quantum phase transition with linear scaling (critical exponent close to unity) of the transition temperature with the pressure above the critical zero-temperature pressure. In addition, we demonstrate that at higher pressures the f-GST goes through a structural phase transition via amorphization to bcc GST (b-GST), which also become superconducting. We also find that the pressure regime where an inhomogeneous mixture of amorphous and b-GST exists, there is an anomalous peak in magnetoresistance, and suggest an explanation for this anomaly.
Journal: Physical Review B