Superconductivity beyond the Conventional Pauli Limit in High-Pressure CeSb_{2}

Phys Rev Lett. 2023 Jul 14;131(2):026001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.026001.

Abstract

We report the discovery of superconductivity at a pressure-induced magnetic quantum phase transition in the Kondo lattice system CeSb_{2}, sustained up to magnetic fields that exceed the conventional Pauli limit eightfold. Like CeRh_{2}As_{2}, CeSb_{2} is locally noncentrosymmetric around the Ce site, but the evolution of critical fields and normal state properties as CeSb_{2} is tuned through the quantum phase transition motivates a fundamentally different explanation for its resilience to applied field.