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Phys. Rev. B 79, 174517 (2009) [6 pages]

Superconductivity on the border of a spin-gapped Mott insulator: NMR studies of the quasi-two-dimensional organic system EtMe3P[Pd(dmit)2]2

T. Itou, A. Oyamada, and S. Maegawa
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

K. Kubo, H. M. Yamamoto, and R. Kato
Condensed Molecular Materials Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Received 3 November 2008; revised 16 March 2009; published 11 May 2009

We present 13C-NMR studies of the pressure-temperature phase diagram of the quasi-two-dimensional organic system EtMe3P[Pd(dmit)2]2, which has a spin-gapped Mott insulating ground state at ambient pressure. As the system is pressurized, the spin-gapped insulating ground state survives until the insulator-metal Mott transition, just beyond which a superconducting state appears. This demonstrates that the superconducting phase borders the spin-gapped insulating phase. The phase diagram contrasts with those of the large majority of other correlated-electron superconductors in which the superconducting phase borders a magnetically ordered phase. This implies the possibility that the present superconductivity has an exotic origin and nature.

©2009 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.174517
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.174517
PACS: 74.70.Kn; 71.30.+h; 76.60.-k
  • 74.70.Kn
    Organic superconductors
  • 71.30.+h
    Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions
  • 76.60.-k
    Nuclear magnetic resonance and relaxation (condensed matter)
  • YEAR: 2009
KEYWORDS: ground states, localised states, metal-insulator transition, nuclear magnetic resonance, organic superconductors, phase diagrams, strongly correlated electron systems

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