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Bulk evidence of anisotropic s-wave pairing with no sign change in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

  • M. Roppongi
  • , K. Ishihara
  • , Y. Tanaka
  • , K. Ogawa
  • , K. Okada
  • , S. Liu
  • , K. Mukasa
  • , Y. Mizukami
  • , Y. Uwatoko
  • , R. Grasset
  • , M. Konczykowski
  • , B. R. Ortiz
  • , S. D. Wilson
  • , K. Hashimoto
  • , T. Shibauchi

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Abstract

The recently discovered kagome superconductors AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs) exhibit unusual charge-density-wave (CDW) orders with time-reversal and rotational symmetry breaking. One of the most crucial unresolved issues is identifying the symmetry of the superconductivity that develops inside the CDW phase. Theory predicts a variety of unconventional superconducting symmetries with sign-changing and chiral order parameters. Experimentally, however, superconducting phase information in AV3Sb5 is still lacking. Here we report the impurity effects in CsV3Sb5 using electron irradiation as a phase-sensitive probe of superconductivity. Our magnetic penetration depth measurements reveal that with increasing impurities, an anisotropic fully-gapped state changes to an isotropic full-gap state without passing through a nodal state. Furthermore, transport measurements under pressure show that the double superconducting dome in the pressure-temperature phase diagram survives against sufficient impurities. These results support that CsV3Sb5 is a non-chiral, anisotropic s-wave superconductor with no sign change both at ambient and under pressure.

Original languageEnglish
Article number667
JournalNature Communications
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2023

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