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Superconductivity (SC) in so-called unconventional superconductors is nearly always found in the vicinity of another ordered state, such as antiferromagnetism, charge density wave (CDW), or stripe order. This suggests a fundamental connection between SC and fluctuations in some other order parameter. To better understand this connection, we used high-pressure x-ray scattering to directly study the CDW order in the layered dichalcogenide TiSe2, which was previously shown to exhibit SC when the CDW is suppressed by pressure [1] or intercalation of Cu atoms [2]. We succeeded in suppressing the CDW fully to zero temperature, establishing for the first time the existence of a quantum critical point (QCP) at Pc = 5.1 +/- 0.2 GPa, which is more than 1 GPa beyond the end of the SC region. Unexpectedly, at P = 3 GPa we observed a reentrant, weakly first order, incommensurate phase, indicating the presence of a Lifshitz tricritical point somewhere above the superconducting dome. Our study suggests that SC in TiSe2 may not be connected to the QCP itself, but to the formation of CDW domain walls.
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