Conventional Superconductivity in the Doped Kagome Superconductor Cs(V0.86Ta0.14)3Sb5 from Vortex Lattice Studies

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Main Authors: Xie, Yaofeng, Chalus, Nathan, Wang, Zhiwei, Yao, Weiliang, Liu, Jinjin, Yao, Yugui, White, Jonathan S., DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa M., Yin, Jia-Xin, Dai, Pengcheng, Eskildsen, Morten Ring
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author Xie, Yaofeng
Chalus, Nathan
Wang, Zhiwei
Yao, Weiliang
Liu, Jinjin
Yao, Yugui
White, Jonathan S.
DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa M.
Yin, Jia-Xin
Dai, Pengcheng
Eskildsen, Morten Ring
author_facet Xie, Yaofeng
Chalus, Nathan
Wang, Zhiwei
Yao, Weiliang
Liu, Jinjin
Yao, Yugui
White, Jonathan S.
DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa M.
Yin, Jia-Xin
Dai, Pengcheng
Eskildsen, Morten Ring
contents A hallmark of unconventional superconductors is their complex electronic phase diagrams where "intertwined orders" of charge-spin-lattice degrees of freedom compete and coexist as in copper oxides and iron pnictides. While the electronic phase diagram of kagome lattice superconductor such as CsV3Sb5 also exhibits complex behavior involving coexisting and competing charge density wave order and superconductivity, much is unclear about the microscopic origin of superconductivity. Here, we study the vortex lattice (VL) in superconducting state of Cs(V0.86Ta0.14)3Sb5, where the Ta-doping suppresses charge order and enhances superconductivity. Using small-angle neutron scattering, a strictly bulk probe, we show that the VL exhibits a strikingly conventional behavior. This includes a triangular VL with a period consistent with 2e-pairing, a field dependent scattering intensity that follows a London model, and a temperature dependence consistent with a uniform superconducting gap expected for s-wave pairing. These results suggest that optimal bulk superconductivity in Cs(V1-xTax)3Sb5 arises from a conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer electron-lattice coupling, different from spin fluctuation mediated unconventional copper and iron based superconductors.
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spellingShingle Conventional Superconductivity in the Doped Kagome Superconductor Cs(V0.86Ta0.14)3Sb5 from Vortex Lattice Studies
Xie, Yaofeng
Chalus, Nathan
Wang, Zhiwei
Yao, Weiliang
Liu, Jinjin
Yao, Yugui
White, Jonathan S.
DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa M.
Yin, Jia-Xin
Dai, Pengcheng
Eskildsen, Morten Ring
Superconductivity
A hallmark of unconventional superconductors is their complex electronic phase diagrams where "intertwined orders" of charge-spin-lattice degrees of freedom compete and coexist as in copper oxides and iron pnictides. While the electronic phase diagram of kagome lattice superconductor such as CsV3Sb5 also exhibits complex behavior involving coexisting and competing charge density wave order and superconductivity, much is unclear about the microscopic origin of superconductivity. Here, we study the vortex lattice (VL) in superconducting state of Cs(V0.86Ta0.14)3Sb5, where the Ta-doping suppresses charge order and enhances superconductivity. Using small-angle neutron scattering, a strictly bulk probe, we show that the VL exhibits a strikingly conventional behavior. This includes a triangular VL with a period consistent with 2e-pairing, a field dependent scattering intensity that follows a London model, and a temperature dependence consistent with a uniform superconducting gap expected for s-wave pairing. These results suggest that optimal bulk superconductivity in Cs(V1-xTax)3Sb5 arises from a conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer electron-lattice coupling, different from spin fluctuation mediated unconventional copper and iron based superconductors.
title Conventional Superconductivity in the Doped Kagome Superconductor Cs(V0.86Ta0.14)3Sb5 from Vortex Lattice Studies
topic Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06046