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arxiv 1809.03610 v2 pith:W32R7XH5 submitted 2018-09-10 cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.str-el

Emerging superconductivity with broken time reversal symmetry inside a superconducting s-wave state

classification cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.str-el
keywords superconductivitydomeinsidemagnetismbrokenbtrsknownlesssim
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In general, magnetism and superconductivity are antagonistic to each other. However, there are several families of superconductors, in which superconductivity may coexist with magnetism, and only a few examples are known, when superconductivity itself induces spontaneous magnetism. The most known compounds are Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ and some noncentrosymmetric superconductors. Here, we report the finding of a narrow dome of a novel $s+is'$ superconducting (SC) phase with broken time-reversal symmetry (BTRS) inside the broad $s$-wave SC region of the centrosymmetric multiband superconductor Ba$_{\rm 1-x}$K$_{\rm x}$Fe$_2$As$_2$ ($0.7 \lesssim x \lesssim 0.85$). We observe spontaneous magnetic fields inside this dome using the muon spin relaxation ($\mu$SR) technique. Furthermore, our detailed specific heat study reveals that the BTRS dome appears very close to a change in the topology of the Fermi surface (Lifshitz transition). With this, we experimentally demonstrate the emergence of a novel quantum state due to topological changes of the electronic system.

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