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Multigap Superconductivity in Chiral Noncentrosymmetric TaRh$_{2}$B$_{2}$

Superconductivity 2018-07-06 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We report the first observation of multigap superconductivity in TaRh2_{2}B2_{2}. We show TaRh2_{2}B2_{2} is a bulk type-II superconductor with a transition temperature, Tc=6.00(5)T_{\mathrm{c}} = 6.00(5) K. We present transverse-field muon spin relaxation data where the superconducting gap can be fit using a two-gap (s+s)\left(s+s\right)-wave model. We also report the zero-field electronic specific heat in the superconducting state that is best described by the same (s+s)\left(s+s\right) model providing further evidence of multiband behavior in this superconductor. Zero-field muon spin relaxation measurements show time-reversal symmetry is preserved in the superconducting state. We demonstrate that TaRh2_{2}B2_{2} has an upper critical field of 15.2(1)15.2(1) T, which is significantly higher than previously reported and exceeds the Pauli limit.

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@article{arxiv.1806.07839,
  title  = {Multigap Superconductivity in Chiral Noncentrosymmetric TaRh$_{2}$B$_{2}$},
  author = {D. A. Mayoh and A. D. Hillier and K. Götze and D. McK. Paul and G. Balakrishnan and M. R. Lees},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.07839},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review B