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Hu, Bin; Chen, Hui; Ye, Yuhan; Huang, Zihao; Han, Xianghe; Zhao, Zhen; Xiao, Hongqin; Lin, Xiao; Yang, Haitao; Wang, Ziqiang; Hong-Jun, Gao
arXiv.org, 03/2024Paper, Journal Article
The collective modes of the superconducting (SC) order parameter fluctuation can provide key insights into the nature of the superconductor, such as the pairing symmetry and orbital nature of the cooper pairs. Their detection has been challenging. Recently, a family of charge density wave (CDW) superconductors has emerged in non-magnetic kagome materials AV3Sb5 (A=K, Rb, Cs), exhibiting evidence for unprecedented time-reversal symmetry breaking CDW, roton-pair density wave (PDW), and higher-charge flux quantization. However, the collective behaviors of the cooper pairs have not been studied. Here, we report a distinct collective mode in the kagome superconductors CsV3-xTaxSb5. Using scanning tunneling microscope/spectroscopy (STM/S), we observe a "peak-dip-hump" feature in the tunneling conductance-a defining signature of collective excitations. The spectral lineshape is well-described by two SC gap functions, one isotropic and one anisotropic, and a bosonic mode due to electron-mode coupling. With increasing x, the two SC gaps, with different pair-breaking strengths and thus different orbital/band characters, move closer in energy, merge into two isotropic gaps of equal amplitude, and then increase synchronously. The collective mode energy, on the other hand, decreases monotonically to well below the quasi-particle excitation gap 2{\Delta} and survives even after the CDW order is suppressed at large x. We identify the collective mode as the Leggett mode of the relative phases between different SC components in the multi-band superconductor or the exotic Bardasis-Schrieffer mode due to a subleading SC component. Our findings provide valuable insights on the nature of the SC ground state and collective excitations, their evolution with Ta-substitutions, and offer a new pathway to study the origin of superconductivity and its interplay with CDW order in kagome superconductors.
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