Superconductivity in Co-Layered LaCoSi
Zhengwen He1, Rongjin Huang2, Kaiyao Zhou3
1Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering and Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
It is known that few Co-based superconducting compounds have been found compared with their Fe- or Ni-based counterparts. In this study, we have found superconductivity of 4 K in the LaCoSi compound for the first time. The combined analysis of neutron and synchrotron X-ray powder diffractions reveals that LaCoSi exhibits an isostructure with the known Fe-based LiFeAs superconductor, which is the first "111" Co-based superconductor. First-principles calculation shows that LaCoSi presents a quasi-two-dimensional band structure that is also similar to that of LiFeAs. The small structural distortion may be more conducive to the emergence of superconductivity in the LaCoSi compound, which provides a direction for finding new Co-based superconducting compounds.
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