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$\mu$SR study of noncentrosymmetric superconductor PbTaSe$_2$

Superconductivity 2017-06-14 v2

Abstract

We present muon spin rotation (μ\muSR) measurements on the noncentrosymmetric superconductor PbTaSe2_2. From measurements in an applied transverse field between Hc1H_{c1} and Hc2H_{c2}, we extract the superfluid density as a function of temperature in the vortex state. This data can be fit with a fully gapped two-band model, consistent with previous evidence from ARPES, thermal conductivity, and resistivity. Furthermore, zero field measurements show no evidence for a time reversal symmetry breaking field greater than 0.05~G in the superconducting state. This makes exotic fully gapped spin-triplet states unlikely, and hence we contend that PbTaSe2_2 is characterized by conventional BCS s-wave superconductivity in multiple bands.

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@article{arxiv.1703.04932,
  title  = {$\mu$SR study of noncentrosymmetric superconductor PbTaSe$_2$},
  author = {M. N. Wilson and A. M. Hallas and Y. Cai and S. Guo and Z. Gong and R. Sankar and F. C. Chou and Y. J. Uemura and G. M. Luke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.04932},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 7 figures