Direct Observation of Full-Gap Superconductivity and Pseudogap in Two-Dimensional Fullerides.
Phys Rev Lett
; 124(18): 187001, 2020 May 08.
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ABSTRACT
Alkali-fulleride superconductors with a maximum critical temperature T_{c}â¼40 K exhibit a similar electronic phase diagram to that of unconventional high-T_{c} superconductors. Here we employ cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy to show that trilayer K_{3}C_{60} displays fully gapped strong coupling s-wave superconductivity, accompanied by a pseudogap above T_{c}â¼22 K and within vortices. A precise control of the electronic correlations and potassium doping enables us to reveal that superconductivity occurs near a superconductor-Mott-insulator transition and reaches maximum at half-filling. The s-wave symmetry retains over the entire phase diagram, which, in conjunction with an abrupt decline of the superconductivity below half-filling, indicates that alkali fullerides are predominantly phonon-mediated superconductors, although the electronic correlations also come into play.
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