Evidence for time-reversal symmetry breaking of the superconducting state near twin-boundary interfaces in FeSe revealed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Watashige, T ^a,b   Tsutsumi, Y ^c,f   Hanaguri, T ^b   Kohsaka, Y ^b   Kasahara, S ^a   Furusaki, A ^b,c   Sigrist, M ^d   Meingast, C ^e   Wolf, T ^e   Lohneysen H V ^e   Shibauchi, T ^a,f   Matsuda, Y ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; FERMI LEVEL; INTERFACE STATES; IRON COMPOUNDS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; QUASIPARTICLE EXCITATIONS; QUASIPARTICLE SPECTRUM; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS;

IRON-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 84945210301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031022     Document Type: Article

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