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Dimensionality-Driven Anomalous Metallic State with Zero-field Nonreciprocal Transport in Layered Ising Superconductors

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Pith's one-line read Thinning 2H-Ta2S3Se to about 3 nanometres creates a zero-field anomalous metallic state whose nonreciprocal transport indicates spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking.

desk verdict A promising field-driven AMS in Ta2S3Se, but the zero-field AMS claim rests on data that stop at 2 K and a trivial Rxy criterion. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.22274 v1 pith:XXPBJSOV submitted 2025-05-28 cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mes-hall

Yanwei Cui , Zenglin Liu , Qin Liu , Junlin Xiong , Yongqin Xie , Yudi Dai , Ji Zhou , Lizheng Wang
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Hanyan Fang Haiwen Liu Shi-Jun Liang Bin Cheng Feng Miao
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keywords anomalousmetalstatezero-fieldnonreciprocaltransportIsingsuperconductor2H-Ta2S3Sequantumvortexcreepmodeltime-reversalsymmetrybreakingsuperconductingdiodeeffecttwo-dimensional
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The reading

The paper reports that in the layered superconductor 2H-Ta2S3Se, thinning the crystal to about 3 nanometres destroys the zero-resistance superconducting ground state and produces an anomalous metallic state even with zero magnetic field applied. In this state the longitudinal resistance saturates at a finite value, 1.95 Ω in the 3.1 nm device, while the Hall resistance vanishes, the standard signature of a 'failed' superconductor. The same thin samples conduct current non-reciprocally, and the polarity of that non-reciprocity can flip after a thermal cycle, which the authors take as evidence of spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry without an external field. If the reading is correct, the material becomes a platform for studying dimensionality-driven quantum criticality and zero-field superconducting diode physics in a regime no other transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductor has exhibited.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the quantum vortex creep model, which explains the saturated low-temperature resistance as temperature-independent quantum tunneling of vortices; the paper fits its magnetic-field and zero-field resistance curves to this model and contrasts it with the Bose metal model of phase-glass collective modes. The other central mechanism is sample thickness, used as a continuous tuning knob from 25.2 nm to 3.1 nm in exfoliated 2H-Ta2S3Se devices, with the zero-field anomalous metal appearing only as the thickness approaches 3 nm. The vanishing Hall resistance with finite longitudinal resistance serves as the operational criterion identifying the state.

What would settle it

Cool the same 3.1 nm device below 500 mK and rewire the four-probe contacts in reverse order: if the residual 1.95 Ω resistance drops toward zero or the V-I asymmetry reverses with contact order, the effect is a measurement artifact, while unchanged saturation and asymmetry would support the intrinsic zero-field AMS. A scanning tunnelling or SQUID-on-tip probe looking for zero-field vortices or loop currents would then test the spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking claim directly.

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Core claim

The central claim is that an anomalous metallic ground state exists at zero magnetic field in Ta2S3Se once the sample thickness approaches the two-dimensional limit, established in a 3.1 nm device where Rxx saturates at 1.95 Ω and Rxy vanishes at low temperature. The paper argues that this zero-field AMS and the magnetic-field-induced AMS seen in devices near 10 nm share the same microscopic origin, because both fit the quantum vortex creep model better than the Bose metal model. It further claims that the field-free nonreciprocal transport, visible as unequal forward and reverse V-I traces and as a second-harmonic signal at zero field, indicates the onset of spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking, with polarity reversal after thermal cycling ruling out residual environmental fields. These observations are presented as the first zero-field anomalous metallic state in a layered transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductor and as a step toward understanding field-free superconducting diode effects.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the finite saturated resistance, the vanishing Hall signal, and the asymmetric V-I curves in the thinnest devices are intrinsic electronic properties rather than artifacts of contact asymmetry, sample damage, or a superconducting transition suppressed below the 2 K measurement floor.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A zero-field anomalous metallic state becomes a dimensionality-driven phase in TMD superconductors, reachable simply by thinning below about 3 nm.
  • The same quantum vortex creep description applies to AMS with and without a magnetic field, indicating a common vortex-motion origin across thicknesses.
  • The field-free nonreciprocal transport links the anomalous metal to the field-free superconducting diode effect, with spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking as the shared ingredient.
  • Polarity reversal of the nonreciprocal response after thermal cycling indicates an internal fluctuating state rather than a static sample asymmetry.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A testable extension is to thermally cycle the 3.1 nm device many times and record the nonreciprocal polarity: if the spontaneous-TRS-breaking picture is right, the two polarities should appear with comparable probability across cooldowns.
  • Patterning an asymmetric pinning lattice on a thin device would connect the vortex-ratchet mechanism to the nonreciprocal signal, predicting that the sign and magnitude of the asymmetry track the pinning layout.
  • The same material can be checked for a zero-field superconducting diode in slightly thicker flakes where superconductivity survives; a shared origin would predict the diode to appear near the superconducting transition with the same thickness tuning.
  • Since the paper names spontaneous vortices or chiral order as possible sources, local probes such as scanning tunnelling microscopy could look for such textures directly; this is a stated future direction rather than a demonstrated result.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports transport measurements on layered 2H-Ta2S3Se devices with thicknesses from 3.1 to 25.2 nm. The authors argue that for thicknesses below 10 nm an anomalous metallic state (AMS) appears under an out-of-plane magnetic field, characterized by finite longitudinal resistance and vanishing Hall resistance. The central claim is that in the thinnest device (3.1 nm) the AMS exists already at zero magnetic field, with Rxx saturating at about 1.95 Ω down to 2 K and Rxy vanishing, and that this state exhibits zero-field nonreciprocal transport suggestive of spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking. The paper also presents fits of the field-dependent resistance to a quantum vortex creep model and a Bose metal model, a thickness-magnetic-field phase diagram, and V-I asymmetry measurements in several devices.

Significance. If the zero-field AMS and its nonreciprocal transport were firmly established, the work would be significant for the physics of low-dimensional superconductors, quantum phase fluctuations, and field-free superconducting diode effects. The manuscript has several strengths: a systematic thickness series, multiple devices, a comparison of two candidate models, a phase diagram, and the observation of polarity reversal after thermal cycling in one device. However, the headline claims rest on a small number of devices and on data that are not sufficient to distinguish a true metallic ground state from a suppressed or incomplete superconducting transition, and the nonreciprocity is not demonstrated to be intrinsic to the purported AMS. As written, the central conclusions are not supported by the evidence presented.

major comments (4)
  1. [Fig. 3(a) and Fig. 1(a)] The central claim of a zero-field anomalous metallic ground state rests on the saturation of Rxx at 1.95 Ω down to 2 K, but no data below 2 K are presented. Because the extracted Tc decreases monotonically with thickness in Fig. 1(b) and devices #6–#8 do not reach zero resistance by 2 K, the observed 'saturation' is equally consistent with the finite-temperature tail of a superconducting transition whose Tc lies below the measurement floor. A finite resistance plateau at the base temperature is not evidence of a metallic ground state unless the measurement limit is calibrated and the T→0 behavior is demonstrated (for example, by dilution-refrigerator measurements or by a quantitative fit that excludes activated behavior). The statement in the Results section that 'the anomalous metallic ground state under zero magnetic field is confirmed' is therefore not supported.
  2. [Fig. 3(a) and Fig. 2(a)] The vanishing Rxy at zero field is used as part of the confirmation of the AMS, but Rxy is identically zero in any time-reversal-symmetric conductor at zero magnetic field, including a normal metal and a fluctuating superconductor. The criterion is therefore trivial for the zero-field claim; it cannot distinguish an anomalous metal from an ordinary metallic state or from an incomplete superconducting transition. The authors should provide an independent discriminator, such as a temperature-independent Rxx plateau over a wide range, a scaling analysis, or Hall measurements at small finite fields to demonstrate the distinctive particle-hole-symmetric response.
  3. [Fig. 3(b) and Fig. 2(c)] The model comparison in Fig. 3(b) is not quantitative: the quantum-creep and Bose-metal fits are shown only over 0–0.13 T, no fit parameters, residuals, goodness-of-fit metrics, or confidence intervals are given, and the models are not defined in the main text. With multiple free parameters in each model, a visually closer match over a narrow field range cannot by itself favor the quantum-creep mechanism, nor can it rule out a conventional superconducting-fluctuation or transition-tail background. The authors should report the fitting procedure, parameter values, and a statistical comparison, and should test the model over an extended field and temperature range.
  4. [Fig. 4(e–h)] The interpretation of zero-field V-I asymmetry as spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking is not supported. The nonreciprocal V-I curves are measured in states that (for device #5 at 3.2 K and device #6 at 2 K) are not established to be anomalous metals, and the asymmetry could arise from contact asymmetry, sample inhomogeneity, rectification at the current contacts, or Joule-heating effects. The thermal-cycle polarity reversal in Fig. 4(h) is suggestive, but without systematic checks such as swapping current and voltage leads, measuring different contact configurations, and demonstrating that the effect is absent in the normal state well above Tc, the claim of intrinsic time-reversal symmetry breaking is premature. The paper itself acknowledges alternative scenarios, but the data presented cannot discriminate among them.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Abstract and Fig. 1] The abstract and main text use '3 nm' and '3.1 nm' interchangeably; the exact thickness of the key device should be stated consistently.
  2. [Fig. 2(d)] The phase diagram defines TC and TC2, but the main text does not define TAM until later; all symbols should be defined at first use.
  3. [Reference [47]] Reference [47] contains a placeholder '[url]' rather than an actual link; this must be completed.
  4. [Fig. 4(f)] The relationship between the vanishing of the second harmonic near zero field below 2.8 K and its appearance at 3.2 K and 3.4 K should be explained more carefully; the current text is confusing.
  5. [Main text] The abbreviation 'TRS' is used before being defined; it should be spelled out at first occurrence.
  6. [Overall] No experimental methods section is present in the main text; key details such as the measurement setup, contact configuration, and noise floor should be provided either in the main text or clearly pointed to in the Supplementary Material.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the AMS classification and model fits are empirical and independent of the paper's interpretive claims.

full rationale

The paper's central observations are direct transport measurements on Ta2S3Se devices; the zero-field AMS claim rests on an Rxx(T) saturation and a fitted model comparison, not on a parameter derived from the claim itself. The quantum creep and Bose metal fits in Figs. 2(c) and 3(b) are free-parameter phenomenological fits to the Rxx(B) data and are explicitly presented as closer alignment rather than unique discrimination; no prediction is generated from a model that was calibrated on the target quantity. The nonreciprocal-transport interpretation is hedged by the authors ('the microscopic mechanism behind the non-reciprocal transport in Ta2S3Se remains an open question requiring further in-depth study'), and the polarity reversal after thermal cycling is an empirical control. Self-citations ([38] and [51]) are contextual or interpretive and are not load-bearing for the central claims; no uniqueness theorem or prior derivation by the same authors is invoked to force the AMS assignment. The 'Rxy vanishes at zero field' criterion is operationally weak because Rxy(B=0)=0 is automatic, but this is an evidentiary/validity concern about the measurement floor, not a circular derivation. The paper therefore does not reduce its conclusions to its inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard transport assumptions, threshold definitions, and on the interpretation of V-I asymmetry as spontaneous TRS breaking. No new fundamental entities are introduced.

free parameters (3)
  • quantum creep model parameters (e.g., characteristic field and prefactor) = not stated
    Used to fit Rxx(B) in Figs. 2(c) and 3(b); the fitting parameters are not reported, and the fits are not predictions but descriptions of the same data.
  • Bose metal model parameters = not stated
    Alternative fit for comparison; also unreported.
  • Threshold definitions for Tc, TAM, TC2 (1% and 50% of Rn) = 1% and 50%
    Chosen by hand to define phase boundaries; the phase diagram in Figs. 2(d) and 3(c) depends on these choices.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Four-probe transport measurements reflect intrinsic sample properties without contact artifacts.
    All resistance and Hall data are interpreted as bulk properties; no contact resistance or current inhomogeneity checks are shown.
  • domain assumption The saturated low-temperature resistance in thin samples corresponds to a thermodynamic anomalous metal, not a measurement floor or non-equilibrium heating effect.
    The paper identifies AMS from saturation of Rxx but does not show measurement floor calibration or current dependence at base temperature.
  • ad hoc to paper Zero-field V-I asymmetry indicates bulk spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking.
    The authors invoke spontaneous TRS breaking, but explicitly list alternative scenarios (pair-density wave, chiral order, vortex ratchet) and state the mechanism is open, making this an adopted assumption rather than a proven conclusion.

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The anomalous metal state (AMS), observed in failed superconductors, provides insights into superconductivity and quantum criticality, with studies revealing unconventional quantum phases like the Bose metal. Recently, layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductors approaching the two-dimensional limit have garnered significant attention for the enhanced phase fluctuations and electronic correlations. Investigating AMS in these systems, particularly in the absence of an external magnetic field, could offer valuable insights into the dimensionality-driven emergence of exotic quantum phenomena, including triplet Cooper pairing, phase fluctuation dynamics, and especially the recently discovered field-free superconducting diode effects. However, the field-free AMS has yet to be observed in TMD superconductors. Here, we report the dimensionality-tunable AMS near the superconducting quantum phase transitions in a layered TMD superconductor 2H-Ta2S3Se. In samples with thicknesses below 10 nm, we demonstrate magnetic field-driven AMS under external magnetic field, characterized by the vanishing of the Hall resistance and the presence of finite longitudinal resistance. Remarkably, an unexpected zero-field AMS emerges as the sample thickness is reduced to 3 nm. This AMS aligns well with the quantum vortex creep model and exhibits non-reciprocal transport behaviors, suggesting the onset of spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking accompanied by vortex motion as the system approaches the two-dimensional limit. Our findings open new avenues for exploring dimensionality-driven exotic superconducting quantum critical phases, and pave the way for a deeper understanding of zero-field superconducting diode effects.

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