Indexed by: Journal paper

First Author: C Mielke III

Correspondence Author: Z Guguchia,M Zahid Hasan,G Xu

Co-author: H Luetkens,A Amato,S Nakatsuji,S Jia,ZQ Wang,J Chang,R Khasanov,K Guo,D Das,H Nakamura,J-X Yin,Y Qin

Journal: Physical Review Materials

Included Journals: SCI

Discipline: Science

First-Level Discipline: Physics

Document Type: J

Volume: 5

Issue: 3

Page Number: 34803

ISSN No.: 2475-9953

Date of Publication: 2021-03-29

Impact Factor: 3.98

Abstract: We report muon spin rotation (μSR) experiments together with first-principles calculations on microscopic properties of superconductivity in the kagome superconductor LaRu3Si2 with Tc ≃ 7K. Below Tc, μ SR reveals type-II superconductivity with a single s-wave gap, which is robust against hydrostatic pressure up to 2 GPa. We find that the calculated normal state band structure features a kagome flat band, and Dirac as well as van Hove points formed by the Ru-dz2 orbitals near the Fermi level. We also find that electron-phonon coupling alone can only reproduce a small fraction of Tc from calculations, which suggests other factors in enhancing Tc such as the correlation effect from the kagome flat band, the van Hove point on the kagome lattice, and the high density of states from narrow kagome bands. Our experiments and calculations taken together point to nodeless moderate coupling kagome superconductivity in LaRu3Si2.