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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 101, 期 21, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.214518
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- Schweizerische Nationalfonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, SNF [200021_169455, 206021_139082]
Superconducting materials with a nontrivial band structure are potential candidates for topological superconductivity. Here, by combining muon-spin rotation and relaxation (mu SR) methods with theoretical calculations, we investigate the superconducting and topological properties of the rocksalt-type compounds NbC and TaC (with T-c = 11.5 and 10.3 K, respectively). At a macroscopic level, the magnetization and heat-capacity measurements under applied magnetic field provide an upper critical field of 1.93 and 0.65 T for NbC and TaC, respectively. The low-temperature superfluid density, determined by transverse-field mu SR and electronic specific-heat data, suggest a fully gapped superconducting state in both NbC and TaC, with a zero-temperature gap Delta(0) = 1.90 and 1.45 meV, and a magnetic penetration depth lambda(0) = 141 and 77 nm, respectively. B andstructure calculations suggest that the density of states at the Fermi level are dominated by the Nb 4d (or Ta 5d) orbitals, which are strongly hybridized with the C p orbitals to produce large cylinderlike Fermi surfaces, similar to those of high-T-c iron-based superconductors. Without considering the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect, the first Brillouin zone contains three closed node lines in the bulk band structure, protected by time-reversal and space-inversion symmetry. When considering SOC, its effects in the NbC case appear rather modest. Therefore, the node lines may be preserved in NbC, hence proposing it as a potential topological superconductor.
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