Absence of Tc-Pinning Phenomenon Under High Pressure in High-Entropy REO0.5F0.5BiS2 Layered Superconductor

TL;DR

This study investigates the effect of high pressure on the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of REO0.5F0.5BiS2, a layered superconductor, finding that increased configurational entropy does not induce Tc robustness under high pressure.

Contribution

It reveals that increasing RE-site configurational entropy does not enhance Tc robustness under high pressure in BiS2-based layered superconductors.

Findings

REO0.5F0.5BiS2 maintains its Tc without robustness under high pressure.

The crystal structure remains monoclinic P21/m regardless of entropy changes.

Configurational entropy at blocking layers does not affect high-pressure superconducting properties.

Abstract

Recently, robustness of superconductivity (transition temperature, Tc) under high pressures has been observed in high-entropy alloy (HEA), bcc-type Ti-Zr-Hf-Nb-Ta, and HEA-type compounds (Ag,In,Sn,Pb,Bi)Te with a NaCl-type structure. Since those materials have three-dimensional crystal structure, investigation on the pressure dependence of Tc of low-dimensional materials is needed to understand the phenomena. Here, we investigated the superconducting properties and the crystal structure of BiS2-based layered system REO0.5F0.5BiS2. Although the robustness of Tc was induced in MTe with increasing M-site configurational entropy, the increase in RE-site configurational entropy does not induce robustness of Tc under high pressures in REO0.5F0.5BiS2. The crystal structure of HEA-type REO0.5F0.5BiS2 was confirmed as monoclinic P21/m, which is the same space group as the zero-entropy counterpart LaO0.5F0.5BiS2. The results suggest that an increase in configurational entropy at blocking layers do not affect crystal structure and superconducting properties under high pressures in the BiS2-based layered system.