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Strong-coupling superconductivity and weak vortex pinning in Ta-doped CsV3Sb5 single crystals

Jinyulin Li, Wei Xie, Jinjin Liu, Qing Li, Xiang Li, Huan Yang, Zhiwei Wang, Yugui Yao, Hai-Hu Wen

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.214529 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

By measuring magnetizations of pristine and Ta-doped CsV3Sb5 single crystals, we have carried out systematic studies on the lower critical field, critical current density, and equilibrium magnetization of this kagome system. The lower critical field has been investigated in the two typical samples, and the temperature-dependent lower critical field obtained in Ta-doped sample can be fitted by using the model with two s-wave superconducting gaps yielding the larger gap of 2Δs1/kBTc=7.9(±1.8). This indicates a strong-coupling feature of the V-based superconductors. The measured magnetization hysteresis loops allow us to calculate the critical current density, which shows a very weak bulk vortex pinning. The magnetization hysteresis loops measured in these two kinds of samples can be well described by a recently proposed generalized phenomenological model, which leads to the determination of many fundamental parameters for these superconductors. Our systematic results and detailed analysis conclude that this V-based kagome system has features of strong-coupling superconductivity, relatively large Ginzburg-Landau parameter, and weak vortex coupling.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
CsV3Sb5

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3.1Pressure unresolvedonset
Cs(V1-xTax)3Sb5

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5.3Pressure unresolvedonset

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