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Nodeless superconductivity in the type-II Dirac semimetal PdTe2: London penetration depth and pairing-symmetry analysis
Ames Laboratory Accepted Manuscripts
  • Serafim Teknowijoyo, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Na Hyun Jo, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Mathias S. Scheurer, Harvard University
  • Makariy A. Tanatar, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Kyuil Cho, Ames Laboratory
  • Sergey L. Bud’ko, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Peter Orth, Iowa State University
  • Paul C. Canfield, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
  • Ruslan Prozorov, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
Publication Date
7-1-2018
Department
Ames Laboratory; Physics and Astronomy
OSTI ID+
1460405
Report Number
IS-J 9708
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.98.024508
Journal Title
Physical Review B
Abstract

Superconducting gap structure was probed in type-II Dirac semimetal PdTe2 by measuring the London penetration depth using the tunnel diode resonator technique. At low temperatures, the data for two samples are well described by a weak-coupling exponential fit yielding λ(T=0)=230 nm as the only fit parameter at a fixed Δ(0)/Tc≈1.76, and the calculated superfluid density is consistent with a fully gapped superconducting state characterized by a single gap scale. Electrical resistivity measurements for in-plane and inter-plane current directions find very low and nearly temperature-independent normal-state anisotropy. The temperature dependence of resistivity is typical for conventional phonon scattering in metals. We compare these experimental results with expectations from a detailed theoretical symmetry analysis and reduce the number of possible superconducting pairing states in PdTe2 to only three nodeless candidates: a regular, topologically trivial s-wave pairing, and two distinct odd-parity triplet states that both can be topologically nontrivial depending on the microscopic interactions driving the superconducting instability.

DOE Contract Number(s)
AC02-07CH11358
Language
en
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
Citation Information
Serafim Teknowijoyo, Na Hyun Jo, Mathias S. Scheurer, Makariy A. Tanatar, et al.. "Nodeless superconductivity in the type-II Dirac semimetal PdTe2: London penetration depth and pairing-symmetry analysis" Vol. 98 Iss. 2 (2018) p. 024508
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter-orth/12/