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Time‐Reversal Symmetry Breaking Superconductivity in HfRhGe: A Noncentrosymmetric Weyl Semimetal

Sajilesh. K. P., Roshan Kumar Kushwaha, Dibyendu Samanta, Tymoteusz Tula, Pavan Kumar Meena, Shashank Srivastava, Deepak Singh, Pabitra Kumar Biswas, Amit Kanigel, Adrian D. Hillier, Sudeep Kumar Ghosh, Ravi Prakash Singh

Advanced Materials· Volume 37· Issue 7

Abstract

Abstract Weyl semimetals are a novel class of topological materials with unique electronic structures and distinct properties. HfRhGe stands out as a noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetal with unconventional superconducting characteristics. Using muon‐spin rotation and relaxation (µSR) spectroscopy and thermodynamic measurements, a fully gapped superconducting state is identified in HfRhGe that breaks time‐reversal symmetry at the superconducting transition. This breaking can trigger a topological phase transition, as time‐reversal symmetry protects the normal‐state Weyl topology characterized by comprehensive first‐principles calculations. Ginzburg‐Landau analysis suggests an unconventional loop supercurrent superconducting state realized in HfRhGe. The presence of multiple Weyl points near the Fermi level and surface Fermi arcs dispersing across the Fermi level further support HfRhGe as a promising platform for topological superconductivity. Additionally, its noncentrosymmetric nature with time‐reversal symmetry breaking superconducting state suggests that it can exhibit an intrinsic superconducting diode effect, offering novel optical and transport properties, with potential applications in dissipationless quantum electronics.
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OpenAlex topics: Topological Materials and Phenomena · Advanced Condensed Matter Physics · Graphene research and applications

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Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 462066 India

Physics Department Technion‐Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000 Israel

Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Uttar Pradesh 208016 India

Institut quantique & Département de physique Université de Sherbrooke Québec J1K 2R1 Canada

ISIS Facility STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Oxfordshire OX11 0QX UK

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