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Pressure-induced heavy-fermion superconductivity in antiferromagnet CeIrSi$$_3$$ without inversion symmetry

Sugitani, Ichiro*; Okuda, Yusuke*; Shishido, Hiroaki*; Yamada, Tsutomu*; Thamizhavel, A.*; Yamamoto, Etsuji  ; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Haga, Yoshinori   ; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Settai, Rikio*; Onuki, Yoshichika

We report the discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in an antiferromagnet CeIrSi$$_3$$, which lacks inversion symmetry in the tetragonal crystal structure. The Neel temperature $$T_N$$ = 5.0 K at ambient pressure decreases monotonically with increasing pressure, and becomes zero at about 2.5 GPa. Superconductivity appears in a wide pressure region from 1.8 GPa to about 3.5 GPa, with a relatively large superconduting transition temperature Tsc= 1.6 K and a large upper critical field $$H_{c2}$$(0) = 11.1 T at 2.5 GPa, indicating heavy-fermion superconductivity.

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