2019年6月
Evidence for singular-phonon-induced nematic superconductivity in a topological superconductor candidate Sr0.1Bi2Se3
Nature Communications
- 巻
- 10
- 号
- 1
- 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.
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- DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-10942-2
- eISSN : 2041-1723