The recently discovered kagome superconductors AVSb (A = K, Rb, Cs) exhibit unusual charge-density-wave (CDW) orders with time-reversal and rotational symmetry breaking. One of the most crucial unresolved issues is identifying the symmetry of the superconductivity that develops inside the CDW phase. Theory predicts a variety of unconventional superconducting symmetries with sign-changing and chiral order parameters. Experimentally, however, superconducting phase information in AVSb is still lacking. Here we report the impurity effects in CsVSb using electron irradiation as a phase-sensitive probe of superconductivity. Our magnetic penetration depth measurements reveal that with increasing impurities, an anisotropic fully-gapped state changes to an isotropic full-gap state without passing through a nodal state. Furthermore, transport measurements under pressure show that the double superconducting dome in the pressure-temperature phase diagram survives against sufficient impurities. These results support that CsVSb is a non-chiral, anisotropic s-wave superconductor with no sign change both at ambient and under pressure.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9905511 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36273-x | DOI Listing |
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