摘要：Here, we report the discovery of superconductivity in a new transition metal-chalcogenide compound, i.e. Nb2Pd0.81S5, with a transition temperature T c ≅ 6.6 K. Despite its relatively low T c, it displays remarkably high and anisotropic superconducting upper critical fields, e.g. μ0 H c2 ( T → 0 K) > 37 T for fields applied along the crystallographic b -axis. For a field applied perpendicularly to the b -axis, μ0 H c2 shows a linear dependence in temperature which coupled to a temperature-dependent anisotropy of the upper critical fields, suggests that Nb2Pd0.81S5 is a multi-band superconductor. This is consistent with band structure calculations which reveal nearly cylindrical and quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surface sheets having hole and electron character, respectively. The static spin susceptibility as calculated through the random phase approximation, reveals strong peaks suggesting proximity to a magnetic state and therefore the possibility of unconventional superconductivity.
