Fragile electronic superconductivity in Bi Single crystal

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03543v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 09:49:02 GMT
• Title: Fragile electronic superconductivity in Bi Single crystal
• Authors: Anil Kumar, Rajendra Loke, Arindam Pramanik, Rajdeep Sensarma, Sitaram Ramakrishnan, Om Prakash, Biplab Bag, Arumugam Thamizhavel and Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
• Abstract summary: Bi is a compensated semi-metal with electrons and holes as charge carriers. We report the temperature dependence of the anisotropic critical field along the [$01bar 10$] (bisectrix)-crystallographic direction. Our theoretical analysis of the anisotropy of critical fields suggests that the light electrons in the three pockets of Bi bands are responsible for the SC.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: It was presumed that semimetal Bismuth (Bi) would not show superconductivity (SC) even at ultra-low temperatures ($<$10 mK) due to its very low carrier density ($\approx 3\times10^{17}$cm$^{-3}$). Recently, we have established bulk superconductivity in ultra-pure (99.9999\%) Bi single crystal at $\mathrm{T_C = 0.53}$ mK with an extrapolated upper critical field $\mathrm{H_C(0) = 5.2\mu}$T measured along the [$0001$] (trigonal) -crystallographic direction. At very low concentrations of the charge carriers, we are dealing with fragile Cooper pairs with an estimated large coherence length $\mathrm{\xi_{GL}(0)\approx 96 \mu}$m. We also stated that one needs to go beyond the conventional electron-phonon coupling (BCS-like) mechanism to understand the SC state in Bi. Bi is a compensated semi-metal with electrons and holes as charge carriers. In order to find the charge carriers responsible for the SC, we report the temperature dependence of the anisotropic critical field along the [$01\bar 10$] (bisectrix)-crystallographic direction and compared it with the earlier data from measurements along the trigonal. Our theoretical analysis of the anisotropy of critical fields suggests that the light electrons in the three pockets of Bi bands are responsible for the SC and indicates that Bi is an extremely weak type-II (close to type-I) superconductor. Finally, we review the current theories proposed to explain the SC in Bi.

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