中国物理B ›› 2016, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (7): 77403-077403.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/7/077403

所属专题： Virtual Special Topic — High temperature superconductivity

• SPECIAL TOPIC—Non-equilibrium phenomena in soft matters • 上一篇    下一篇

Multiband nodeless superconductivity near the charge-density-wave quantum critical point in ZrTe3-xSex

Shan Cui(崔珊), Lan-Po He(何兰坡), Xiao-Chen Hong(洪晓晨), Xiang-De Zhu(朱相德), Cedomir Petrovic, Shi-Yan Li(李世燕)   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Department of Physics, and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
    2 High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230031, China;
    3 Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China;
    4 Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
  • 收稿日期:2016-05-19 出版日期:2016-07-05 发布日期:2016-07-05
  • 通讯作者: Shi-Yan Li E-mail:shiyan_li@fudan.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2012CB821402 and 2015CB921401), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91421101, 11422429, and 11204312), the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, China, and STCSM of China (Grant No. 15XD1500200). Work at Brookhaven National Laboratory was supported by the US DOE under Contract No. DESC00112704.

Multiband nodeless superconductivity near the charge-density-wave quantum critical point in ZrTe3-xSex

Shan Cui(崔珊)1, Lan-Po He(何兰坡)1, Xiao-Chen Hong(洪晓晨)1, Xiang-De Zhu(朱相德)2,4, Cedomir Petrovic4, Shi-Yan Li(李世燕)1,3   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Department of Physics, and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China;
    2 High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230031, China;
    3 Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China;
    4 Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
  • Received:2016-05-19 Online:2016-07-05 Published:2016-07-05
  • Contact: Shi-Yan Li E-mail:shiyan_li@fudan.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2012CB821402 and 2015CB921401), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91421101, 11422429, and 11204312), the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, China, and STCSM of China (Grant No. 15XD1500200). Work at Brookhaven National Laboratory was supported by the US DOE under Contract No. DESC00112704.

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摘要：

It was found that selenium doping can suppress the charge-density-wave (CDW) order and induce bulk superconductivity in ZrTe3. The observed superconducting dome suggests the existence of a CDW quantum critical point (QCP) in ZrTe3-xSex near x ≈ 0.04. To elucidate the superconducting state near the CDW QCP, we measure the thermal conductivity of two ZrTe3-xSex single crystals (x = 0.044 and 0.051) down to 80 mK. For both samples, the residual linear term κ0/T at zero field is negligible, which is a clear evidence for nodeless superconducting gap. Furthermore, the field dependence of κ0/T manifests a multigap behavior. These results demonstrate multiple nodeless superconducting gaps in ZrTe3-xSex, which indicates conventional superconductivity despite of the existence of a CDW QCP.

关键词: superconductivity, charge-density-wave order, thermal transport measurement, gap structure

Abstract:

It was found that selenium doping can suppress the charge-density-wave (CDW) order and induce bulk superconductivity in ZrTe3. The observed superconducting dome suggests the existence of a CDW quantum critical point (QCP) in ZrTe3-xSex near x ≈ 0.04. To elucidate the superconducting state near the CDW QCP, we measure the thermal conductivity of two ZrTe3-xSex single crystals (x = 0.044 and 0.051) down to 80 mK. For both samples, the residual linear term κ0/T at zero field is negligible, which is a clear evidence for nodeless superconducting gap. Furthermore, the field dependence of κ0/T manifests a multigap behavior. These results demonstrate multiple nodeless superconducting gaps in ZrTe3-xSex, which indicates conventional superconductivity despite of the existence of a CDW QCP.

Key words: superconductivity, charge-density-wave order, thermal transport measurement, gap structure

中图分类号:  (Electric and thermal conductivity)

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74.40.Kb (Quantum critical phenomena) 74.25.Jb (Electronic structure (photoemission, etc.)) 74.25.Op (Mixed states, critical fields, and surface sheaths)