Numerous phenomenological parallels have been drawn between f- and d- electron systems in an attempt to understand their display of unconventional superconductivity. The microscopics of how electrons evolve from participation in large moment antiferromagnetism to superconductivity in these systems, however, remains a mystery. Knowing the origin of Cooper paired electrons in momentum space is a crucial prerequisite for understanding the pairing mechanism. Of especial interest are pressure-induced superconductors CeIn3 and CeRhIn5 in which disparate magnetic and superconducting orders apparently coexist - arising from within the same f-electron degrees of freedom. Here we present ambient pressure quantum oscillation measurements on CeIn3 that crucially identify the electronic structure - potentially similar to high temperature superconductors. Heavy pockets of f-character are revealed in CeIn3, undergoing an unexpected effective mass divergence well before the antiferromagnetic critical field. We thus uncover the softening of a branch of quasiparticle excitations located away from the traditional spin-fluctuation dominated antiferromagnetic quantum critical point. The observed Fermi surface of dispersive f-electrons in CeIn3 could potentially explain the emergence of Cooper pairs from within a strong moment antiferromagnet.
The discovery of a superconducting dome in the proximity of the magnetic to paramagnetic transition in the electronic phase diagram of MnP as a function of hydrostatic pressure has renewed the interest in the magnetic properties of this binary pnictide. Here we present an ab initio study obtained with Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations as a function of pressure. We show that the itinerant-electron magnetism of MnP is well characterized by the mean-field Kohn-Sham method which correctly describes the ambient pressure magnetic states, the anomalous trend of the lattice parameters as a f…
How superconductivity emerges in the vicinity of an antiferromagnetic insulating state is a long-standing issue of strong correlation physics. We study the transition from an antiferromagnetic insulator to a superconductor by hole-doping based on a bilayer generalization of a Hubbard-like model. The projector quantum Monte-Carlo simulations are employed, which are sign-problem-free both at and away from half-filling. An anisotropic Ising antiferromagnetic Mott insulating phase occurs at half-filling, which is weakened by hole-doping. Below a critical doping value, antiferromagnetism coexists w…
The pressure effects on the antiferromagentic orders in iron-based ladder compounds CsFe$_2$Se$_3$ and BaFe$_2$S$_3$ have been studied using neutron diffraction. With identical crystal structure and similar magnetic structures, the two compounds exhibit highly contrasting magnetic behaviors under moderate external pressures. In CsFe$_2$Se$_3$ the ladders are brought much closer to each other by pressure, but the stripe-type magnetic order shows no observable change. In contrast, the stripe order in BaFe$_2$S$_3$, undergoes a quantum phase transition where an abrupt increase of N$\acute{e}$el t…
We perform a comparative $2 \times 2$ real space cluster DMFT study on minimal models for NdNiO$_2$ and CaCuO$_2$ obtained from downfolding DFT states, using a Nambu formalism that allows for both superconducting and antiferromagnetic order. We produce a phase diagram in temperature and doping. We find that for the nickelate, like the cuprate, the stoichiometric compound is antiferromagnetic. We find superconductivity in a doping range bounded, with a small coexistence region, by the onset of antiferromagnetism at low doping and with transition temperature becoming immeasurably small at high d…
We investigate the impact of s-wave spin-singlet pairing on antiferromagnetic semimetals with Dirac points or nodal loops at the Fermi level. The electron pairing is generally shown to convert the semimetal into a tunable nodal superconductor. The changeover from fully gapped to gapless phases is dictated by symmetry properties of the antiferromagnetic-superconducting state that set the occurrence of a large variety of electronic topological transitions. We provide a general criterion for predicting a series of transitions between nodal and fully gapped superconducting phases. Different types …
Unconventional superconductivity and antiferromagnetic quantum critical behavior in the isovalent-doped BaFe2(As1-xPx)2
用$^{31}$ P NMR研究了BaFe $_2$（As $_{1-x}$ P $_x$）$_2$的自旋动力学随P浓度的变化.我们的核磁共振研究表明，二维反铁磁（AF）的波动显着增强与静态磁化率的变化不大接近AF阶段从超导圆顶。此外，磁有序温度$θ$推导出的弛豫速率在最佳掺杂消失。这些结果为量子临界点（QCP）提供了明确的证据，表明与QCP相关的AF涨落在高- $T_c$超导性中发挥着核心作用。
We study the contribution of the electron-spin fluctuation coupling to the superconducting state of the two dimensional Hubbard model within dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) using a numerical exact continuous time Monte Carlo solver. By analyzing the frequency dependence of the self energy, we show that only about half of the superconductivity can be attributed to a "pairing glue" arising from treating spin fluctuations as a pairing boson in the standard one-loop theory.
Quantum oscillations in antiferromagnetic CaFe2As2 on the brink of superconductivity
我们报告量子振荡测量CaFe 2 As 2在强磁场-最近报道成为超导压力下的小到一个hundrear。观察到的最大载流子口袋占据了顺磁布里渊区体积的小于0.05%-与反铁磁性引起的费米表面重构一致。通过比较几种碱土AFe_2As_2反铁磁体（A=Ca，Sr和Ba），发现费米面截面积F_α和初始观察口袋的有效质量m_α与反铁磁/结构转变温度T_s的关系与常规自旋密度波模型中的准粒子一致。这些发现表明，在这一系列化合物中，存在着一个传统的自旋密度波，非常接近超导性，这可能对非常规对形成的微观起源有影响。
We propose a route to achieve odd-parity spin-triplet superconductivity in metallic collinear antiferromagnets with inversion symmetry. Owing to the existence of hidden antiunitary symmetry, which we call the effective time-reversal symmetry (eTRS), the Fermi surfaces of ordinary antiferromagnetic metals are generally spin-degenerate, and spin-singlet pairing is favored. However, by introducing a local inversion symmetry breaking perturbation that also breaks the eTRS, we can lift the degeneracy to obtain spin-polarized Fermi surfaces. In the weak-coupling limit, the spin-polarized Fermi surfa…
Motivated by recent experiments reporting superconductivity only at very low temperature in a class of heavy fermion compounds, we study the impact of energy fluctuations with small momentum transfer on the pairing instability near an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point. While these fluctuations, formed by composite spin fluctuations, were proposed to explain the thermodynamic and transport properties near the quantum critical point of compounds such as YbRh$_{2}$Si$_{2}$ and CeCu$_{6-x}$Au$_{x}$ at $x\approx0.1$, here they are found to strongly suppress $T_{c}$ of the $d$-wave pairing of…
Coexistence of Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Superconductivity in La2SmNi2O7 Thin Films
ShanghaiTech University（上海科技大学）；Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院上海高等研究院）；Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院物理研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Superconductivity mediated by the antiferromagnetic spin-wave in chalcogenide iron-base superconductors
K $_{0.8+x}$ Fe $_{1.6+y}$ Se $_2$等铁基硒化物超导体的基态都是掺杂反铁磁半导体。在这些材料中，存在定义明确的铁局域矩，其能量与传导电子的能量通过大的带隙分开。我们建议，该系统的低能物理是由一个模型的相互作用的电子与现场铁磁交换相互作用和站点间的超交换相互作用的哈密顿量。我们在线性自旋波近似下导出了电子的有效配对势，并证明了这些材料中的超导性可以通过介导相干自旋波激发来驱动。我们的工作为中子散射和其他实验观察到的超导和反铁磁长程序共存提供了一个自然的解释。
The effects of pressure on antiferromagnetic (AFM) and superconducting phase transitions of 112-type Ca$_{1-x}$La$_{x}$FeAs$_{2}$ were studied, and the in-plane electrical resistivity $ρ_{ab}$ was measured with an indenter-type pressure cell. The AFM phase transition temperatures of $T_{\rm N}$ = 47, 63, and 63 K at ambient pressure for $x$ = 0.18, 0.21, and 0.26 was suppressed by applying pressure $P$, with superconductivity emerging at critical pressures of $P_{\rm c}$ $\simeq$ 0, 1.5, and 3.4 GPa, respectively. Correspondingly, the slope of $T_{\rm N}$ against $P$ decreased as $dT_{\rm N}/P…
Majorana bound states are zero-energy states predicted to emerge in topological superconductors and intense efforts seeking a definitive proof of their observation are still ongoing. A standard route to realize them involves antagonistic orders: a superconductor in proximity to a ferromagnet. Here we show this issue can be resolved using antiferromagnetic rather than ferromagnetic order. We propose to use a chain of antiferromagnetic skyrmions, in an otherwise collinear antiferromagnet, coupled to a bulk conventional superconductor as a novel platform capable of supporting Majorana bound state…
NiPSe3 is regarded as a bandwidth-controlled Mott insulator, distinct from the widely studied Mott insulating magnetic graphene MPSe3 (M = Mn and Fe) family. By employing high-pressure synchrotron X-ray diffraction, we observe two structural transitions as a function of pressure. With the help of first-principles calculations, we discover the antiferromagnetic (AFM) moment directions of NiPSe3 switch from out-of-plane to in-plane and the honeycomb layers slide relative to each other at the first structural transition. The in-plane AFM order persists until the second structural transition, wher…
In several unconventional superconductors, the highest superconducting transition temperature $T_{c}$ is found in a region of the phase diagram where the antiferromagnetic transition temperature extrapolates to zero, signaling a putative quantum critical point. The elucidation of the interplay between these two phenomena - high-$T_{c}$ superconductivity and magnetic quantum criticality - remains an important piece of the complex puzzle of unconventional superconductivity. In this paper, we combine sign-problem-free Quantum Monte Carlo simulations and field-theoretical analytical calculations t…
To identify the key parameter for optimal superconductivity in iron pnictides, we measured the $^{31}$P-NMR relaxation rate on BaFe$_{2}$(As$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$)$_{2}$ ($x = 0.22$ and 0.28) under pressure and compared the effects of chemical substitution and physical pressure. For $x = 0.22$, structural and antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition temperatures both show minimal changes with pressure up to 2.4~GPa, whereas the superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ increases to twice its former value. In contrast, for $x=0.28$ near the AFM quantum critical point (QCP), the structural phase tra…
A fundamental problem posed from the study of correlated electron compounds, of which heavy-fermion systems are prototypes, is the need to understand the physics of states near a quantum critical point (QCP). At a QCP, magnetic order is suppressed continuously to zero temperature and unconventional superconductivity often appears. Here, we report pressure ($P$) -dependent $^{115}$In nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements on heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeRh$_{0.5}$Ir$_{0.5}$In$_5$. These experiments reveal an antiferromagnetic (AF) QCP at $P_{\rm c}^{\rm AF}$ = 1.2 GPa where a dome o…
Superconductivity originates from the formation of bound (Cooper) pairs of electrons that can move through the lattice without resistance below the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$. Electron Cooper pairs in most superconductors form anti-parallel spin singlets with total spin $S=0$, although they can also form parallel spin-triplet Cooper pairs with $S=1$ and an odd parity wavefunction. Spin-triplet pairing is important because it can host topological states and Majorana fermions relevant for quantum computation. Because spin-triplet pairing is usually mediated by ferromagnetic (FM…
Evidence for s-wave superconductivity with antiferromagnetic fluctuations in filled skutterudite LaFe$_{4}$P$_{12}$: $^{139}$La and $^{31}$P-NMR studies
我们对填充方钴矿超导体LaFe $_{4}$ P $_{12}$进行了$^{139}$ La，$^{31}$ P-NMR研究，其临界温度为$T_c=4.1$ K。在正常状态下，反铁磁（AFM）波动的存在下，有限波矢建议从核自旋晶格弛豫率$1/T_1$和奈特位移之间的关系。在超导（SC）状态下，观察到明显的相干峰$T_c$下方，很容易被抑制的外加电场。观察到$1/T_1$的指数下降，暗示了具有$2Δ/k_{\rm B}T_c =3.8$的各向同性超导带隙。此外，我们观察到骑士位移的减少，表明$T_c$以下的单对形成。这些结果清楚地证明了LaFe $_{4}$ P $_{12}$是一种罕见的具有显著AFM涨落的s波超导体。
