Spectroscopic signature of two superconducting gaps and their unusual field dependence in RuB2.

Spectroscopic signature of two superconducting gaps and their unusual field dependence in RuB2.

Datta, Soumya;Vasdev, Aastha;Halder, Soumyadip;Singh, Jaskaran;Singh, Yogesh;Sheet, Goutam;
journal of physics condensed matter : an institute of physics journal 2020
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datta2020spectroscopicjournal

Abstract

Recently RuBwas shown to be a possible two-gap, type-I superconductor. Temperature dependent heat capacity measurements revealed a two-gap superconducting ground state while magnetic field dependent magnetization measurements indicated surprising type-I superconductivity with a very low experimental critical field∼ 120 Oe. In this paper, we report direct spectroscopic evidence of two superconducting energy gaps in RuB. We have measured scanning tunnelling spectra exhibiting signature of two gaps on different grains of polycrystalline RuB, possibly originating from multiple bands. Analysis of the temperature dependent tunnelling spectra revealed that the gaps from different bands evolve differently with temperature before disappearing simultaneously at a single. Interestingly, our experiments also reveal that the gaps in quasiparticle density of states survive up to magnetic fields much higher than the bulkand they evolve smoothly with field, unlike what is expected for a type-I superconductor, indicating the existence of a "mixed state".

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