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
StatePublished - Dec 2023
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We thank R. Tazai, Y. Yamakawa, S. Onari, and H. Kontani for fruitful discussions. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) (Nos. JP22K20349, JP22K18681, JP22K18683, JP22J21896, JP22H00105, JP21H01793, JP21KK0242, JP20H02600, JP19H00649, JP19H00648, JP18H05227, JP18KK0375), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on innovative areas “Quantum Liquid Crystals” (No. JP19H05824) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Condensed Conjugation” (No. JP20H05869) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and CREST (No. JPMJCR19T5) from Japan Science and Technology (JST). S.D.W. and B.R.O. acknowledge support via the UC Santa Barbara NSF Quantum Foundry funded via the Q-AMASE-i program under award DMR-1906325. Electron irradiation was conducted at the SIRIUS accelerator facility at École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) and was supported by EMIR&A French network (FR CNRS 3618) (proposal No. 22-8950).

FundersFunder number
EMIR&A French network
UC Santa Barbara NSFDMR-1906325
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Core Research for Evolutional Science and TechnologyJPMJCR19T5
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique22-8950

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