Band structure, superconductivity and polytypism in AuSn$_4$
| Autor: | Edwin Herrera, Beilun Wu, Evan O'Leary, Alberto M. Ruiz, Miguel Águeda, Pablo García Talavera, Víctor Barrena, Jon Azpeitia, Carmen Munuera, Mar García-Hernández, Lin-Lin Wang, Adam Kaminski, Paul C. Canfield, José J. Baldoví, Isabel Guillamón, Hermann Suderow |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
Condensed Matter - Materials Science Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Condensed Matter::Superconductivity Condensed Matter - Superconductivity Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) FOS: Physical sciences General Materials Science Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| Popis: | The orthorhombic compound AuSn4 is compositionally similar to the Dirac node arc semimetal PtSn$_4$. AuSn$_4$ is, contrary to PtSn$_4$, superconducting with a critical temperature of T$_c$ = 2.35 K. Recent measurements present indications for quasi two-dimensional superconducting behavior in AuSn$_4$. Here we present measurements of the superconducting density of states and the band structure of AuSn$_4$ through Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Angular Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES). The superconducting gap values in different portions of the Fermi surface are spread around {\Delta}0 = 0.4 meV, which is close to but somewhat larger than $\Delta =$ 1.76kBT$_c$ expected from BCS theory. We observe superconducting features in the tunneling conductance at the surface up to temperatures about 20% larger than bulk Tc. The band structure calculated with Density Functional Theory (DFT) follows well the results of ARPES. The crystal structure presents two possible stackings of Sn layers, giving two nearly degenerate polytypes. This makes AuSn$_4$ a rather unique case with a three dimensional electronic band structure but properties ressembling those of low dimensional layered compounds. |
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