Bulk evidence of anisotropic s-wave pairing with no sign change in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

The recently discovered kagome superconductors A V 3 Sb 5 ( A = K, Rb, Cs) exhibit unusual charge-density-wave (CDW) orders with time-reversal and rotational symmetry breaking. One of the most crucial unresolved issues is identifying the symmetry of the superconductivity that develops inside the CDW phase. Theory predicts a variety of unconventional superconducting symmetries with sign-changing and chiral order parameters. Experimentally, however, superconducting phase information in A V 3 Sb 5 is still lacking. Here we report the impurity effects in CsV 3 Sb 5 using electron irradiation as a phase-sensitive probe of superconductivity. Our magnetic penetration depth measurements reveal that with increasing impurities, an anisotropic fully-gapped state changes to an isotropic full-gap state without passing through a nodal state. Furthermore, transport measurements under pressure show that the double superconducting dome in the pressure-temperature phase diagram survives against sufficient impurities. These results support that CsV 3 Sb 5 is a non-chiral, anisotropic s -wave superconductor with no sign change both at ambient and under pressure. In the kagome superconductor CsV 3 Sb 5 the symmetry of the superconducting gap is still in question, both at ambient pressure and under high pressure. Here, via controlled introduction of impurities, the authors report evidence for a non-chiral full superconducting gap with no sign change.