Nature Communications (May 2021)

Chiral singlet superconductivity in the weakly correlated metal LaPt3P

  • P. K. Biswas,
  • S. K. Ghosh,
  • J. Z. Zhao,
  • D. A. Mayoh,
  • N. D. Zhigadlo,
  • Xiaofeng Xu,
  • C. Baines,
  • A. D. Hillier,
  • G. Balakrishnan,
  • M. R. Lees

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22807-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Chiral superconductors are very rare topological materials. Here, the authors report spontaneous magnetic fields inside the superconducting state and low temperature linear behavior in the superfluid density in LaPt3P, suggesting a chiral d-wave singlet superconducting state.