Superconducting state arising out of a Topological Crystalline Insulator

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A new class of materials called Topological Crystalline Insulator(TCI) has been recently proposedtheoretically and subsequently, SnTe has been discovered to exhibit all the requiredcharacteristics of this state. For levels of In substitution (x~0.4), SnTe is a superconductor with atransition temperature of ~4.5K. The discovery of these materials marks an important step in ourunderstanding of the superconducting state arising out of a TI material. We propose to investigatethe superconducting state of a series of samples, Sn1-xInxTe (x= 0.38, 0.40, 0.41, 0.45) using the MuSR instrument. The understanding of the pairing mechanism in this superconductor has implications on the understanding of a new class of materials, namely Topological Crystalline Superconductors.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091200
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091200
Provenance
Creator Professor Don Paul; Professor Geetha Balakrishnan; Professor Martin Lees; Dr Aidy Hillier; Mr Mohammed Saghir
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Discipline Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Media Studies; Humanities; Theater
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-07-30T09:16:04Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-08-06T13:21:26Z