journal article·2020-07-21Open access

Fully gapped superconductivity without sign reversal in the topological superconductor PbTaSe2

Yue Sun, Shunichiro Kittaka, Toshiro Sakakibara, Kazushige Machida, R. Sankar, Xiaofeng Xu, Nan Zhou, Xiangzhuo Xing, Zhixiang Shi, Sunseng Pyon, Tsuyoshi Tamegai

Physical Review B· Volume 102· Issue 2

Abstract

We investigate the superconducting gap function of the topological superconductor ${\mathrm{PbTaSe}}2$. The temperature, magnetic field, and three-dimensional (3D) field-angle dependences of the specific heat prove that the superconductivity of ${\mathrm{PbTaSe}}2$ is fully gapped, with two isotropic $s$-wave gaps. The pair-breaking effect is probed by systematically increasing nonmagnetic disorders through ${\mathrm{H}}+$ irradiation. The superconducting transition temperature ${T}_{\mathrm{c}}$ is found to be robust against disorders, which suggests that the pairing should be sign preserved rather than sign reversed.
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