Anomalous Residual Surface Conductivity in a Superconductor with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling

Autor: Chamorro, J. R., Chauhan, P., Sun, C., Varnava, N., Winiarski, M. J., Ng, N., Vivanco, H. K., Pressley, L. A., Pasco, C. M., Vanderbilt, D., Li, Yi, Armitage, N. P., McQueen, T. M.
Rok vydání: 2021
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Conventional BCS superconductors are expected to exhibit a conductivity with vanishing dissipation with decreasing temperature. While bulk physical properties measurements indicate PdPb$_{2}$ is a conventional superconductor with a $T_c$ of 3.0 K, measurements of surface impedance through the microwave cavity perturbation technique indicate a large, non-vanishing dissipative component below $T_c$ that is at odds with conventional superconductivity. We demonstrate PdPb$_2$ to be a possible topological superconductor with a fully gapped bulk and a dissipative Majorana fluid surface.
Databáze: arXiv