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Unconventional high temperature superconductivity in cubic zinc-blende transition metal compounds

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We consider possible high temperature superconductivity (high-Tc) in transition metal compounds with a cubic zinc-blende lattice structure. When the electron filling configuration in the d-shell is close to d7, all three t2g orbitals are near half filling with strong nearest neighbor antiferromagnetic (AFM) superexchange interactions. We argue that upon doping, this electronic environment can be one of “genes” to host unconventional high Tc with a time reversal symmetry broken d2z2−x2−y2 ± id x2−y2 pairing symmetry. With gapless nodal points along the diagonal directions, this state is a direct three-dimensional analogue to the two-dimensional B1gd-wave state in cuprates. We suggest that such a case may be realized in electron doped CoN, such as CoN1−xOx and (H, Li)1−xCoN.

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Qiang Zhang, Kun Jiang, YuHao Gu & JiangPing Hu

  2. Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA

    Kun Jiang

  3. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    YuHao Gu

  4. Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

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Qiang Zhang was supported by the International Young Scientist Fellowship of Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy Sciences (Grant No. 2017002), and the Postdoctoral International Program from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. Y8BK131T61). YuHao Gu was supported by the High-performance Computing Platform of Peking University. Jiang- Ping Hu was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2015CB921300, and 2017YFA0303100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. NSFC-11334012), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy Sciences (Grant No. XDB07000000).

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Zhang, Q., Jiang, K., Gu, Y. et al. Unconventional high temperature superconductivity in cubic zinc-blende transition metal compounds. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 63, 277411 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-019-1495-3

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