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PdBi2中的多相超导性

Multiphase superconductivity in PdBi2

Lewis Powell, Wenjun Kuang, Gabriel Hawkins-Pottier, Rashid Jalil, John Birkbeck, Ziyi Jiang, Minsoo Kim, Yichao Zou, Sofiia Komrakova, Sarah Haigh, Ivan Timokh… 展开作者

Lewis Powell, Wenjun Kuang, Gabriel Hawkins-Pottier, Rashid Jalil, John Birkbeck, Ziyi Jiang, Minsoo Kim, Yichao Zou, Sofiia Komrakova, Sarah Haigh, Ivan Timokhin, Geetha Balakrishnan, Andre K. Geim, Niels Walet, Alessandro Principi, Irina V. Grigorieva

AI总结:

本研究在层状非磁性超导体β-PdBi2中发现磁场驱动的超导相变,结合隧道谱实验与理论分析揭示其源于自旋极化和自旋-动量锁定,调和了该材料多能隙超导的理论预测与单能隙实验结果的矛盾。

摘要:

非常规超导(即电子配对不涉及电子-声子相互作用的超导现象)通常归因于材料中的磁关联,知名例子包括高Tc铜氧化物超导体和铀基重费米子超导体。具有强自旋轨道耦合的非常规超导体探索较少,这类材料中自旋极化电子与外磁场的相互作用可产生多个超导相以及场致的相间转变,这是超导态下的罕见现象。本文报道了层状非磁性超导体β-PdBi2中的磁场驱动相变。我们对集成在平面超导体-绝缘体-正常金属结中的PdBi2薄单晶开展了隧道谱测量,结果显示随着面内磁场增强,超导特性出现显著不连续性,这与从常规s波配对到节点配对的转变一致。理论分析表明,该相变可能源于局域反演对称性破缺导致的自旋极化和自旋-动量锁定,高场下p波配对在能量上变得更有利。本研究也调和了此前关于β-PdBi2中非常规多能隙超导的理论预测,与以往仅能检测到单个s波能隙的实验结果之间的矛盾。

英文摘要:

Unconventional superconductivity, where electron pairing does not involve electron-phonon interactions, is often attributed to magnetic correlations in a material. Well known examples include high-T_c cuprates and uranium-based heavy fermion superconductors. Less explored are unconventional superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, where interactions between spin-polarised electrons and external magnetic field can result in multiple superconducting phases and field-induced transitions between them, a rare phenomenon in the superconducting state. Here we report a magnetic-field driven phase transition in β-PdBi2, a layered non-magnetic superconductor. Our tunnelling spectroscopy on thin PdBi2 monocrystals incorporated in planar superconductor-insulator-normal metal junctions reveals a marked discontinuity in the superconducting properties with increasing in-plane field, which is consistent with a transition from conventional (s-wave) to nodal pairing. Our theoretical analysis suggests that this phase transition may arise from spin polarisation and spin-momentum locking caused by locally broken inversion symmetry, with p-wave pairing becoming energetically favourable in high fields. Our findings also reconcile earlier predictions of unconventional multigap superconductivity in β-PdBi2 with previous experiments where only a single s-wave gap could be detected.

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