Comment on "Topography of Fermi arcs in t-PtBi 2 using high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy" arXiv:2503.08841 (cond-mat)
cond-mat.supr-con, cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mtrl-sci
Submitted: 2026-09-19
Updated: 2026-09-19
Comments: Comment on arXiv:2503.08841
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy have established surface superconductivity in the Weyl semimetal t-PtBi 2, whereas O'Leary et al.
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Abstract
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy have established surface superconductivity in the Weyl semimetal t-PtBi 2, whereas O'Leary et al. concluded from an independent ARPES experiment that superconducting signatures are absent above 3 K. Here we reanalyze the complete deposited data of O'Leary et al. Using only experimentally determined momentum-distribution-curve (MDC) maxima, energy-distribution-curve (EDC) peak positions, and leading edges, we find a strongly anisotropic low-energy gap and dispersion back-bending that closely reproduce the magnitude and angular dependence reported independently by Changdar et al. We further show that the temperature-dependent data of Ref. originate from the other surface termination and were presented using temperature-dependent energy translations, momentum translations, and momentum rescalings. Registering the original temperature-dependent datasets using the metallic bulk Fermi cutoff reveals finite gaps of approximately 2, 2, 1, and 0.8 meV at the four Fermi crossings. Thus the independently acquired data of O'Leary et al., obtained on different samples and with a different photon energy, confirm rather than contradict the previously reported anisotropic superconducting gap and additionally show that an anisotropic low-energy suppression persists to 19 K.
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