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FeSe中孪晶界面附近超导态时间反演对称性破缺的证据

Evidence for time-reversal symmetry breaking of the superconducting state near twin-boundary interfaces in FeSe

T. Watashige, Y. Tsutsumi, T. Hanaguri, Y. Kohsaka, S. Kasahara, A. Furusaki, M. Sigrist, C. Meingast, T. Wolf, H. v. Lohneysen, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda

摘要:

由非常规超导体组成的结和界面为研究与序参量相位有关的奇异现象提供了一个很好的实验场所。非常规序参量的复杂结构不仅对约瑟夫森效应有影响,而且可能深刻地改变结附近的准粒子激发谱。在这里,通过使用光谱成像扫描隧道显微镜,我们可视化的局域态密度(LDOS)附近的结超导体FeSe的孪晶界(TB)的空间演化。晶体学取向在TB上的$π/2$旋转扭曲了非常规序参量的结构,这原则上可以在TB处产生零能量LDOS峰。相比之下,在我们的研究中观察到的TB处的LDOS没有表现出任何零能量峰的特征,并且表观间隙幅度在整个TB上始终保持有限。与能隙节点相关的低能准粒子激发在比相干长度$ξ_{ab}$大一个数量级以上的距离上受到TB的影响。低能态的改变在相隔距离为$\approx7ξ_{ab}$的两个相邻TB之间的区域中甚至更为显著。在这个区域中,由于节状准粒子谱在费米能级($\approx\pm$ 0.2~meV)附近的谱权几乎被完全消除。这些行为表明,TB诱导一个完全能隙的状态,调用一个可能的扭曲的序参量结构,打破时间反演对称性。

英文摘要:

Junctions and interfaces consisting of unconventional superconductors provide an excellent experimental playground to study exotic phenomena related to the phase of the order parameter. Not only the complex structure of unconventional order parameters have an impact on the Josephson effects, but also may profoundly alter the quasi-particle excitation spectrum near a junction. Here, by using spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy, we visualize the spatial evolution of the local density of states (LDOS) near twin boundaries (TBs) of the nodal superconductor FeSe. The $π/2$ rotation of the crystallographic orientation across the TB twists the structure of the unconventional order parameter, which may, in principle, bring about a zero-energy LDOS peak at the TB. The LDOS at the TB observed in our study, in contrast, does not exhibit any signature of a zero-energy peak and an apparent gap amplitude remains finite all the way across the TB. The low-energy quasiparticle excitations associated with the gap nodes are affected by the TB over a distance more than an order of magnitude larger than the coherence length $ξ_{ab}$. The modification of the low-energy states is even more prominent in the region between two neighboring TBs separated by a distance $\approx7ξ_{ab}$. In this region the spectral weight near the Fermi level ($\approx\pm$0.2~meV) due to the nodal quasiparticle spectrum is almost completely removed. These behaviors suggest that the TB induces a fully-gapped state, invoking a possible twist of the order parameter structure which breaks time-reversal symmetry.

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