Evidence for nonunitary triplet-pairing superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric TaRuSi and comparison with isostructural TaReSi
S. Sharma, Sajilesh K. P., A. D. S. Richards, J. Gautreau, M. Pula, J. Beare, K. M. Kojima, S. Yoon, Y. Cai, R. K. Kushwaha, T. Agarwal, E. S. Sørensen, R. P. Singh, G. M. Luke
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.144510 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
We have studied the superconducting properties of the isostructural ternary noncentrosymmetric superconductors TaXSi (X=Re, Ru) with the help of muon spin rotation/relaxation (μSR) and density functional theory calculations. Our transverse-field μSR measurements indicate isotropic s-wave superconductivity in TaReSi and multigap superconductivity in TaRuSi. Zero-field μSR measurements, highly sensitive to very small magnetic fields, find no evidence of spontaneous fields in the superconducting state of TaReSi, whereas we observe small spontaneous fields that onset with superconductivity indicating broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) superconductivity in TaRuSi. Using density functional theory calculations, we find that spin-orbit coupling is relatively weak in TaRuSi and strong in TaReSi. Using symmetry analysis, we attribute the broken TRS in TaRuSi to a nonunitary triplet pairing state. Such a state is not allowed in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling: our finding of no evidence for broken TRS in TaReSi is consistent with this expectation.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| TaReSi Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 5.32 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
| TaRuSi Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 3.91 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
| TaReSi Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 4.89 | Pressure not reported | midpoint |
| TaRuSi Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 3.47 | Pressure not reported | midpoint |
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