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Recent studies have found that all three materials within the vanadium-based Kagome superconductors (AV3Sb5, A = K, Cs, Rb) exhibit time-reversal symmetry-breaking behaviors in the superconducting states. Among the three, the Josephson junctions structured Nb/K1–xV3Sb5/Nb and RbV3Sb5 show magnetic hysteresis below the superconducting transition temperature. In CsV3Sb5, there exists a zero-field superconducting diode effect, meaning the magnitude of the positive and negative superconducting critical current are different. We first discuss the similarities and differences among the three above-mentioned experiments. Then, we discuss the possible mechanisms responsible for the unconventional superconducting transport phenomena: such as chiral superconducting order parameter (d+id or p+ip), and chiral pair density waves arising from the coupling of the charge density waves and conventional superconducting states.
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Keywords:
- Kagome superconductor /
- symmetry-breaking /
- superconducting diode
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表 1 不同钒基笼目超导体的超导输运性质比较
Table 1. Comparison of superconducting transport properties of different vanadium-based Kagome superconductors
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