Unusual Normal and Superconducting State Properties Observed in Hydrothermal Fe$_{1-\delta}$Se Flakes
Shaobo Liu1,2, Sheng Ma1,2, Zhaosheng Wang3, Wei Hu1,2, Zian Li1, Qimei Liang3, Hong Wang1,2, Yuhang Zhang1,2, Zouyouwei Lu1,2, Jie Yuan1,4,5, Kui Jin1,2,4,5, Jian-Qi Li1,2, Li Pi3, Li Yu1,2,5, Fang Zhou1,2,5*, Xiaoli Dong1,2,4,5, and Zhongxian Zhao1,2,4,5
1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 2School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics at Extreme Conditions, High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China 4Key Laboratory for Vacuum Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 5Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
Abstract:The electronic and superconducting properties of Fe$_{1-\delta}$Se single-crystal flakes grown hydrothermally are studied by the transport measurements under zero and high magnetic fields up to 38.5 T. The results contrast sharply with those previously reported for nematically ordered FeSe by chemical-vapor-transport (CVT) growth. No signature of the electronic nematicity, but an evident metal-to-nonmetal crossover with increasing temperature, is detected in the normal state of the present hydrothermal samples. Interestingly, a higher superconducting critical temperature $T_{\rm c}$ of 13.2 K is observed compared to a suppressed $T_{\rm c}$ of 9 K in the presence of the nematicity in the CVT FeSe. Moreover, the upper critical field in the zero-temperature limit is found to be isotropic with respect to the field direction and to reach a higher value of $\sim $42 T, which breaks the Pauli limit by a factor of 1.8.
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