論文

査読有り
2019年6月

Evidence for singular-phonon-induced nematic superconductivity in a topological superconductor candidate Sr0.1Bi2Se3

Nature Communications
  • Jinghui Wang
  • Kejing Ran
  • Shichao Li
  • Zhen Ma
  • Song Bao
  • Zhengwei Cai
  • Youtian Zhang
  • Kenji Nakajima
  • Seiko Ohira-Kawamura
  • Petr Cermak
  • Astrid Schneidewind
  • Sergey Savrasov
  • Xiangang Wan
  • Jinsheng Wen
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開始ページ
28002-1
終了ページ
28002-6
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-10942-2

Superconductivity mediated by phonons is typically conventional, exhibiting a momentum-independent $s$-wave pairing function, due to the isotropic interactions between electrons and phonons along different crystalline directions. Here, by performing inelastic neutron scattering measurements on a superconducting single crystal of Sr$_{0.1}$Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$, a prime candidate for realizing topological superconductivity by doping the topo-logical insulator Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$, we found that there ex-ist singular phonons, with the linewidths of the acoustic phonons increasing substantially at long wavelengths, but only for those along the 001 direction. This observation indicates a large and singular electron-phonon coupling at small momenta, which we propose to give rise to the exotic $p$-wave nematic superconducting pairing in the MxBi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ (M=Cu, Sr, Nb) superconductor family. Therefore, we show that these superconductors may be the first examples where electron-phonon interaction can induce more exotic superconducting pairing than the $s$-wave.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10942-2
URL
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10942-2.pdf
URL
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10942-2
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-10942-2
  • eISSN : 2041-1723

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