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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01066-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.