Nature Communications (Oct 2017)
Signatures of the topological s +− superconducting order parameter in the type-II Weyl semimetal T d-MoTe2
- Z. Guguchia,
- F. von Rohr,
- Z. Shermadini,
- A. T. Lee,
- S. Banerjee,
- A. R. Wieteska,
- C. A. Marianetti,
- B. A. Frandsen,
- H. Luetkens,
- Z. Gong,
- S. C. Cheung,
- C. Baines,
- A. Shengelaya,
- G. Taniashvili,
- A. N. Pasupathy,
- E. Morenzoni,
- S. J. L. Billinge,
- A. Amato,
- R. J. Cava,
- R. Khasanov,
- Y. J. Uemura
Affiliations
- Z. Guguchia
- Department of Physics, Columbia University
- F. von Rohr
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
- Z. Shermadini
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute
- A. T. Lee
- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- S. Banerjee
- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- A. R. Wieteska
- Department of Physics, Columbia University
- C. A. Marianetti
- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- B. A. Frandsen
- Department of Physics, University of California
- H. Luetkens
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute
- Z. Gong
- Department of Physics, Columbia University
- S. C. Cheung
- Department of Physics, Columbia University
- C. Baines
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute
- A. Shengelaya
- Department of Physics, Tbilisi State University
- G. Taniashvili
- Department of Physics, Tbilisi State University
- A. N. Pasupathy
- Department of Physics, Columbia University
- E. Morenzoni
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute
- S. J. L. Billinge
- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
- A. Amato
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute
- R. J. Cava
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
- R. Khasanov
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institute
- Y. J. Uemura
- Department of Physics, Columbia University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01066-6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Understanding the superconductivity in topological materials is of eminent interest. Here, Guguchia et al. report temperature-dependent magnetic penetration depth in the superconducting state of T d -MoTe2 under pressure, suggesting a topologically nontrivial s +− order parameter.