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Effect of electron count and chemical complexity in the Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor

Publication date2016-11-15
First online date2016-11
Abstract

High-entropy alloys are a new class of materials that consist of several principal elements arranged on simple lattices. These structures are stabilized by the high configurational entropy of the random mixing of the elements. Here, we show that the properties of a superconducting high-entropy alloy are strongly related to the electron count and that the superconducting transition temperatures of these alloys fall between those of analogous crystalline and amorphous materials. We find that despite the large degree of randomness and disorder in these alloys, the superconducting properties are nevertheless strongly dependent on the chemical composition and complexity. We argue that high-entropy alloys are excellent model systems for understanding how superconductivity and other collective quantum states evolve from crystals to amorphous solids.

Keywords
  • disordered metals
  • high-entropy alloys
  • superconductivity
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Funding
  • DOE | Brookhaven National Laboratory, Office of Science - [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation - [Grant GBMF-4412]
  • Narodowe Centrum Nauki - [DEC-2012/07/E/ST3/00584]
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VON ROHR, Fabian et al. Effect of electron count and chemical complexity in the Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloy superconductor. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, vol. 113, n° 46, p. E7144–E7150. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615926113
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1615926113
Journal ISSN0027-8424
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