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Volume 116, Number 6, December 2016
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Article Number | 67002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/116/67002 | |
Published online | 16 February 2017 |
Fully gapped superconducting state in Au2Pb: A natural candidate for topological superconductor
1 State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Department of Physics, and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University - Shanghai 200433, China
2 International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University - Beijing 100871, China
3 Beijing Key Laboratory of Optical Detection Technology for Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum Beijing 102249, China
4 Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter - Beijing 100871, China
5 Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures - Nanjing 210093, China
(a) jianwangphysics@pku.edu.cn
(b) shiyan_li@fudan.edu.cn
Received: 26 September 2016
Accepted: 25 January 2017
We measured the ultra-low-temperature specific heat and thermal conductivity of the Au2Pb single crystal, a possible three-dimensional Dirac semimetal with a superconducting transition temperature . The electronic specific heat can be fitted by a two-band s-wave model, which gives the gap amplitudes Δ1(0)/kBTc = 1.41 and Δ2(0)/kBTc = 5.25. From the thermal conductivity measurements, a negligible residual linear term in zero field and a slow field dependence of at low field are obtained. These results suggest that Au2Pb has a fully gapped superconducting state in the bulk, which is a necessary condition for topological superconductors if Au2Pb is indeed one.
PACS: 74.25.Bt – Thermodynamic properties / 74.25.fc – Electric and thermal conductivity
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