Reply to “Comment on ‘Superconductivity in electron-doped layered TiNCl with variable interlayer coupling' ”

S. Zhang; Masashi Tanaka; Shoji Yamanaka

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.90.186502

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Reply to “Comment on ‘Superconductivity in electron-doped layered TiNCl with variable interlayer coupling' ”

S. Zhang, Masashi Tanaka, Shoji Yamanaka

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.186502 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We have studied the electron-doped α-form TiNCl (FeOCl orthorhombic type) in detail and have found the transition temperature Tc of 18.0 K decreases monotonically with increasing the interlayer spacing d upon co-intercalation of various kinds of organic solvent molecules with alkali atoms. We conclude that such kinds of experimental results imply the importance of interlayer Coulomb coupling [Phys. Rev. B 86, 024516 (2012)], which is a strong contrast to the behavior previously found in the electron doped β-form ZrNCl and HfNCl. In their Comment, Harshman and Fiory [Phys. Rev. B 90, 186501 (2014)] discuss a detailed model with remote Coulomb scattering to scale the optimized Tc, which is consistent with our conclusion.

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Formula	Reported Tc (K)	Pressure (GPa)	Type
TiNCl Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	18	Pressure not reported	unknown
Li0.13TiNCl Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown
TiNBr Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown