Pressure induced superconductivity in MnSe

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 5436
• Main Authors: Hung, T. L., Huang, C. H., Deng, L. Z., Ou, M. N., Chen, Y. Y., Wu, M. K., Huyan, S. Y., Chu, C. W., Chen, P. J., Lee, T. K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.09.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 639/301/119/1003; 639/766/119/995; High pressure; High temperature; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Pressure; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Superconductivity
• ISSN: 2041-1723; 2041-1723
• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25721-1

The rich phenomena in the FeSe and related compounds have attracted great interests as it provides fertile material to gain further insight into the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity. A natural follow-up work was to look into the possibility of superconductivity in MnSe. We demonstrated in this work that high pressure can effectively suppress the complex magnetic characters of MnSe, and induce superconductivity with T c ~ 5 K at pressure ~12 GPa confirmed by both magnetic and resistive measurements. The highest T c is ~ 9 K (magnetic result) at ~35 GPa. Our observations suggest the observed superconductivity may closely relate to the pressure-induced structural change. However, the interface between the metallic and insulating boundaries may also play an important role to the pressure induced superconductivity in MnSe. Superconductivity in FeSe attracted great interests to understand the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity. Here, the authors report a pressure induced superconductivity with a highest T c of ~9 K in MnSe.