Nematic superconductivity in Cu-1.5(PbSe)(5)(Bi2Se3)(6) - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer

Andersen, Lionel, Wang, Zhiwei ORCID: 0000-0003-0182-2471, Lorenz, Thomas ORCID: 0000-0003-4832-5157 and Ando, Yoichi ORCID: 0000-0002-3553-3355 (2018). Nematic superconductivity in Cu-1.5(PbSe)(5)(Bi2Se3)(6). Phys. Rev. B, 98 (22). COLLEGE PK: AMER PHYSICAL SOC. ISSN 2469-9969

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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.220512

Abstract

After the discovery of nematic topological superconductivity in CuxBi2Se3, carrier-doped topological insulators are established as a fertile ground for topological superconductors. The superconductor Cu-1.5(PbSe)(5)(Bi2Se3)(6) (CPSBS) contains Bi2Se3 blocks as a constitutional unit, but its superconducting gap appears to have nodes [S. Sasaki et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 220504 (2014)], which is in contrast to the fully opened gap in CuxBi2Se3 and the relation between the two superconductors remained an open question. Here, we report our observation of clear twofold symmetry in the in-plane magnetic field direction dependencies of the upper critical field and of the specific heat of CPSBS, where the direction of the maxima, which is different from that in CuxBi2Se3, indicates that the gap nodes are located in the mirror plane of the crystal lattice. This means that the topological nematic state with mirror-symmetry-protected nodes is realized in CPSBS.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Andersen, Lionel	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wang, Zhiwei	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-0182-2471	UNSPECIFIED
Lorenz, Thomas	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0003-4832-5157	UNSPECIFIED
Ando, Yoichi	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-3553-3355	UNSPECIFIED