Gapless excitations inside the fully gapped kagome superconductors AV3Sb5
Yuhao Gu, Yi Zhang, Xilin Feng, Kun Jiang, Jiangping Hu
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L100502 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
The superconducting gap structures in the transition-metal-based kagome metal AV3Sb5 (A=K, Rb, Cs), the first family of quasi-two-dimensional kagome superconductors, remain elusive as there is strong experimental evidence for both nodal and nodeless gap structures. Here we show that the dichotomy can be resolved because of the coexistence of time-reversal symmetry breaking with a conventional fully gapped superconductivity. The symmetry protects the edge states which arise on the domains of the lattice symmetry breaking order to remain gapless in proximity to a conventional pairing. We demonstrate this result in a four-band tight-binding model using the V dX2a−Y2-like and the in-plane Sb pz-like Wannier functions that can faithfully capture the main feature of the materials near the Fermi level.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| CsV3Sb5 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 2.5 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
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