Node-like excitations in superconducting PbMo6S8 probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

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2007-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702258v1

Phys. Rev. B 75, 104501 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

To appear in PRB; 5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.104501

We present the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy study on the Chevrel phase PbMo6S8, an extreme type II superconductor with a coherence length only slightly larger than in high-Tc cuprates. Tunneling spectra measured on atomically flat terraces are spatially homogeneous and show well-defined coherence peaks. The low-energy spectral weight, the zero bias conductance and the temperature dependence of the gap are incompatible with a conventional isotropic s-wave interpretation, revealing the presence of low-energy excitations in the superconducting state. We show that our data are consistent with the presence of nodes in the superconducting gap.

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