Gapless excitations inside the fully gapped kagome superconductors AV${}_3$Sb${}_5$

Abstract

The superconducting gap structures in the transition-metal-based kagome metal AV${}_3$Sb${}_5$ (A=K,Rb,Cs), the first family of quasi-two-dimensional kagome superconductors, remain elusive as there is strong experimental evidence for both nodal and nodaless gap structures. Here we show that the dichotomy can be resolved because of the coexistence of time-reversal symmetry breaking with a conventional fully gapped superconductivity. The symmetry protects the edge states which arise on the domains of the lattice symmetry breaking order to remain gapless in proximity to a conventional pairing. We demonstrate this result in a four-band tight-binding model using the V $d_{X^2-Y^2}$-like and the in-plane Sb $p_z$-like Wannier functions that can faithfully capture the main feature of the materials near the Fermi level.

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