Fully-gapped superconductivity with rotational symmetry breaking in pressurized kagome metal CsV3Sb5
The discovery of the kagome metal CsV<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>5</sub> has generated significant interest in its complex physical properties, particularly its superconducting behavior under different pressures, though its nature remains debated. Here, we performed low-temperature, high-pressure <sup>121/123</sup>Sb nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements to explore the superconducting pairing symmetry in CsV<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>5</sub>. At ambient pressure, we found that the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T<sub>1</sub> exhibits a kink at T ~ 0.4 T<sub>c</sub> within the superconducting state and follows a T<sup>3</sup> variation as temperature further decreases. This suggests the presence of two superconducting gaps with line nodes in the smaller one. As pressure increases beyond P<sub>c</sub> ~ 1.85 GPa, where the charge-density wave phase is completely suppressed, 1/T<sub>1</sub> shows no Hebel-Slichter peak just below T<sub>c</sub>, and decreases rapidly, even faster than T<sup>5</sup>, indicating that the gap is fully opened for pressures above P<sub>c</sub>. In this high pressure region, the angular dependence of the in-plane upper critical magnetic field H<sub>c2</sub> breaks the C<sub>6</sub> rotational symmetry. We propose the s + id pairing at P > P<sub>c</sub> which explains both the 1/T<sub>1</sub> and H<sub>c2</sub> behaviors. Our findings indicate that CsV<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>5</sub> is an unconventional superconductor and its superconducting state is even more exotic at high pressures.
Authors
- Y. Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2886-0259)
- Rui Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0781-0626)
- Jie Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0748-6763)
- X. Y. Feng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7330-0421)
- Haitao Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4304-9835)
- J. L. Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0051-7726)
- A. F. Fang
- Guo‐qing Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1707-5669)
- Zhongxian Zhao
Institutions
- Okayama University of Science (JP)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ)
- Institute of Physics (CN)
- National Laboratory for Superconductivity (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58941-w
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.77
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences