151. Chiral Pair Density Waves with Residual Fermi Arcs in RbV3Sb5.
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Yan, Xiao-Yu, Deng, Hanbin, Yang, Tianyu, Liu, Guowei, Song, Wei, Miao, Hu, Tu, Zhijun, Lei, Hechang, Wang, Shuo, Lin, Ben-Chuan, Qin, Hailang, and Yin, Jia-Xin
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SUPERCONDUCTING transition temperature ,SCANNING tunneling microscopy ,DENSITY ,SUPERCONDUCTIVITY ,SUPERCONDUCTORS - Abstract
The chiral 2 × 2 charge order has been reported and confirmed in the kagome superconductor RbV
3 Sb5 , while its interplay with superconductivity remains elusive owing to its lowest superconducting transition temperature TC of about 0.85 K in the AV3 Sb5 family (A = K, Rb, Cs) that severely challenges electronic spectroscopic probes. Here, utilizing dilution-refrigerator-based scanning tunneling microscopy down to 30 mK, we observe chiral 2 × 2 pair density waves with residual Fermi arcs in RbV3 Sb5 . We find a superconducting gap of 150 μeV with substantial residual in-gap states. The spatial distribution of this gap exhibits chiral 2 × 2 modulations, signaling a chiral pair density wave (PDW). Our quasi-particle interference imaging of the zero-energy residual states further reveals arc-like patterns. We discuss the relation of the gap modulations with the residual Fermi arcs under the space-momentum correspondence between PDW and Bogoliubov Fermi states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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