Direct evidence for two-gap superconductivity in hydrogen-intercalated titanium diselenide
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| author | Piatti, Erik Gavello, Gaia Ummarino, Giovanni A. Košuth, Filip Szabó, Pavol Samuely, Peter Gonnelli, Renato S. Daghero, Dario |
| author_facet | Piatti, Erik Gavello, Gaia Ummarino, Giovanni A. Košuth, Filip Szabó, Pavol Samuely, Peter Gonnelli, Renato S. Daghero, Dario |
| contents | Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer an extremely rich material platform in the exploration of unconventional superconductivity. The unconventional aspects include exotic coupling mechanisms such as the Ising pairing, a complex interplay with other electronic orders such as charge-density waves (CDWs), symmetry-breaking and topological effects, and non-trivial gap structures such as multi-gap and possible nodal phases. Among TMDs, titanium diselenide (1$T$-TiSe$_2$) is one of the most studied and debated cases. Hints to an anomalous structure of its superconducting order parameter have emerged over the years, possibly linked to its spatial texturing in real and reciprocal space due to the presence of a 2$\times$2$\times$2 CDW phase, or to a pressure-driven multi-band Fermi surface. However, a direct evidence for a non-trivial structure of the superconducting gap in this material is still lacking. In this work, we bring the first evidence for a two-gap structure in the recently-discovered H-intercalated TiSe$_2$ superconductor (with T$_c \simeq 3.6$ K) by an extensive experimental study that combines magnetotransport measurements, point-contact spectroscopy and scanning tunnel spectroscopy. We show that the temperature dependence of the upper critical field (for $\vec B \parallel c$) as well as the shape of the point-contact and tunneling spectra strongly suggest the existence of two distinct superconducting gaps, and can indeed all be fitted in a self-consistent way with the same gap amplitudes $Δ_1 = 0.26 \pm 0.12$ meV and $Δ_2 =0.62 \pm 0.18$ meV. |
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| spellingShingle | Direct evidence for two-gap superconductivity in hydrogen-intercalated titanium diselenide Piatti, Erik Gavello, Gaia Ummarino, Giovanni A. Košuth, Filip Szabó, Pavol Samuely, Peter Gonnelli, Renato S. Daghero, Dario Superconductivity Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer an extremely rich material platform in the exploration of unconventional superconductivity. The unconventional aspects include exotic coupling mechanisms such as the Ising pairing, a complex interplay with other electronic orders such as charge-density waves (CDWs), symmetry-breaking and topological effects, and non-trivial gap structures such as multi-gap and possible nodal phases. Among TMDs, titanium diselenide (1$T$-TiSe$_2$) is one of the most studied and debated cases. Hints to an anomalous structure of its superconducting order parameter have emerged over the years, possibly linked to its spatial texturing in real and reciprocal space due to the presence of a 2$\times$2$\times$2 CDW phase, or to a pressure-driven multi-band Fermi surface. However, a direct evidence for a non-trivial structure of the superconducting gap in this material is still lacking. In this work, we bring the first evidence for a two-gap structure in the recently-discovered H-intercalated TiSe$_2$ superconductor (with T$_c \simeq 3.6$ K) by an extensive experimental study that combines magnetotransport measurements, point-contact spectroscopy and scanning tunnel spectroscopy. We show that the temperature dependence of the upper critical field (for $\vec B \parallel c$) as well as the shape of the point-contact and tunneling spectra strongly suggest the existence of two distinct superconducting gaps, and can indeed all be fitted in a self-consistent way with the same gap amplitudes $Δ_1 = 0.26 \pm 0.12$ meV and $Δ_2 =0.62 \pm 0.18$ meV. |
| title | Direct evidence for two-gap superconductivity in hydrogen-intercalated titanium diselenide |
| topic | Superconductivity Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01334 |