Metallization and pressure-induced superconductivity in carrier doped excitonic insulator (Ta
Ti
)
NiSe
Tsuchida, Shun*; Hirose, Yusuke; Sekikawa, Takuya; Ono, Yoshiaki*; Hirahara, Takuya*; Sano, Sumika*; Kawaguchi, Shogo*; Kobayashi, Shintaro*; Uwatoko, Yoshiya*; Settai, Rikio*
We investigated the carrier doping effect on an excitonic insulator Ta
NiSe
by means of the electrical resistivity
and Hall coefficient
using single crystals of (Ta
Ti
)
NiSe
, and band calculation. The excitonic transition temperature
is continuously suppressed to 83 K at
= 0.104 while preserving the crystal structure. With increasing substitution concentration
, a semiconducting increment of
and
is strongly suppressed and a metallic behavior is observed at
> 0.06. Ti substitution can realize an excitonic correlated metallic state. This metallization is explained by the hole doping effect based on the band calculations. Applying pressure to the carrier doped (Ta
Ti
)
NiSe
, we found superconductivity above 2.6 GPa, which is much smaller than that of Ta
NiSe
around 8 GPa. The carrier doping induced by Ti substitution favors superconductivity in this compound.