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Nodeless s-wave superconductivity in the {\alpha}-Mn structure type noncentrosymmetric superconductor TaOs: A {\mu}SR study

Superconductivity 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

Noncentrosymmetric superconductors can lead to a variety of exotic properties in the superconducting state such as line nodes, multigap behavior, and time-reversal symmetry breaking. In this paper, we report the properties of the new noncentrosymmetric superconductor TaOs, using muon spin relaxation and rotation measurements. It is shown using the zero-field muon experiment that TaOs preserve the time-reversal symmetry in the superconducting state. From the transverse field muon measurements, we extract the temperature dependence of λ(T)\lambda(T) which is proportional to the superfluid density. This data can be fit with a fully gapped s-wave model for α\alpha = Δ(0)/kBTc\Delta(0)/k_{B}T_{c} = 2.01 ±\pm 0.02. Furthermore, the value of magnetic penetration depth is found to be 5919 ±\pm 45 \text{\AA}, which is consistent with the value obtained from the bulk measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1907.03984,
  title  = {Nodeless s-wave superconductivity in the {\alpha}-Mn structure type noncentrosymmetric superconductor TaOs: A {\mu}SR study},
  author = {D. Singh and Sajilesh K. P and Sourav Marik and P. K. Biswas and A. D. Hillier and R. P. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03984},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures