Abstract
The search for noncentrosymmetric superconductors that may exhibit unusual physical properties and unconventional superconductivity has yielded the synthesis of a noncentrosymmetric phosphide with an -type structure. Although stoichiometric does not exhibit superconductivity at temperatures above 2 K, we found that an Mg deficiency of approximately 5 at.% in the -induced superconductivity at 3.9 K. Physical properties such as the lattice parameter , Sommerfeld constant , specific heat jump , electron–phonon coupling constant , upper critical field , and pressure effect were measured for the superconducting (). Band-structure calculations indicate that exotic fermions, which are not present in high-energy physics, exist in . Since Mg, Rh, and P are the first elements used at each crystal site of -type compounds, the discovery of may guide the search for new related materials.
2 More- Received 8 July 2019
- Revised 20 September 2019
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.124802
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