Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Unconventional Superconductivity in Topological Superconductor Candidate YPtBi Revealed by ^{195}Pt-NMR.

Autor: Zhou YZ; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing 100190, China.; School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China., Chen J; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing 100190, China., Li ZX; School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China., Luo J; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing 100190, China., Yang J; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing 100190, China., Guo YF; School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.; ShanghaiTech Laboratory for Topological Physics, Shanghai 201210, China., Wang WH; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing 100190, China., Zhou R; Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing 100190, China.; Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China., Zheng GQ; Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2023 Jun 30; Vol. 130 (26), pp. 266002.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.266002
Abstrakt: We report ^{195}Pt nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on topological superconductor candidate YPtBi, which has broken inversion symmetry and topological nontrivial band structures due to the strong spin-orbit coupling. In the normal state, we find that Knight shift K is field- and temperature independent, suggesting that the contribution from the topological bands is very small at low temperatures. However, the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T_{1} divided by temperature (T), 1/T_{1}T, increases with decreasing T, implying the existence of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations. In the superconducting state, no Hebel-Slichter coherence peak is seen below T_{c} and 1/T_{1} follows T^{3} variation, indicating the unconventional superconductivity. The finite spin susceptibility at zero-temperature limit and the anomalous increase of the NMR linewidth below T_{c} point to a mixed state of spin-singlet and spin-triplet (or spin-septet) pairing.
Databáze: MEDLINE