Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Unsplit superconducting and time reversal symmetry breaking transitions in Sr2RuO4 under hydrostatic pressure and disorder

  • Vadim Grinenko,
  • Debarchan Das,
  • Ritu Gupta,
  • Bastian Zinkl,
  • Naoki Kikugawa,
  • Yoshiteru Maeno,
  • Clifford W. Hicks,
  • Hans-Henning Klauss,
  • Manfred Sigrist,
  • Rustem Khasanov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24176-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Two possible scenarios of the superconducting order parameter in Sr2RuO4 remain difficult to distinguish. Here, the authors observe that the onset temperature of time reversal symmetry breaking tracks the superconducting transition temperature in Sr2RuO4, supporting a d x z ± id y z order parameter.