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Jianchang Shen1, Guangdi Zhou2, Yu Miao1,3
1Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
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The discovery of superconductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper bilayer nickelate films under ambient pressure provides an opportunity to directly investigate electronic energy scales of the superconducting state and the pairing mechanism. We report angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements of superconducting (La,Pr,Sm)3Ni2O7 thin films by developing an ultrahigh-vacuum cryogenic sample quenching and transfer technique. A superconducting gap of ~18 milli-electron volts with coherence peaks is observed along the Brillouin zone diagonal. The finite gap persists across the entire Brillouin zone, revealing the absence of gap nodes. A kink is observed in the energy-momentum dispersion at ~70 milli-electron volts below the Fermi level, indicating an electron-boson coupling. The simultaneous observation of a nodeless superconducting gap and electron-boson coupling provides insight into the pairing symmetry and gluing mechanism in Ruddlesden-Popper bilayer nickelates.
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