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Pressure-induced superconductivity in the RhBi2 polymorphs

KeYuan Ma, Lifen Shi, Samuel Gallego Parra, Oksana E. Kvitnitskaya, Dmitri Efremov, Jonathan Noky, Qing Dong, Walter Schnelle, Yurii Prots, Thomas Doert, Helge Rosner, Claudia Felser, and Sergey A. Medvedev

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 24 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/8bx1-db7f

Abstract

The polymorphic rhodium-bismuth compound RhBi2 has attracted interest owing to its non-trivial topological electronic states. We report the growth of single crystals of both α- and β-RhBi2 and a study of their physical properties at low temperatures and ambient and high pressures beyond 40 GPa. At ambient pressure, β-RhBi2 is a metal with a low density of states at the Fermi level, whereas α-RhBi2 is a semimetal with large magnetoresistance (~500%). Point-contact Andreev-reflection spectroscopy demonstrates induced superconductivity for both phases. By applying pressure, we observe the emergence of superconductivity at P ≈ 8 GPa in β-RhBi2 and at p ≈ 20 GPa in α-RhBi2, with the critical temperature Tc exhibiting a dome-shaped dependence on pressure in both phases. The maximum values of Tc are 6.6 K at p ≈ 13 GPa for β-RhBi2 and 3.7 K at p ≈ 24.2 GPa for α-RhBi2. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction studies show that the crystal structure of α-RhBi2 remains stable over the entire investigated pressure range.In contrast, β-RhBi2 undergoes a transition from a triclinic to a tetragonal structure (γ-RhBi2) at p ≈ 13.5 GPa, accompanied by the attainment of the maximum value of Tc..

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