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铁基超导体中Leggett模作为时间约束对称破缺的一种探测

Leggett modes in iron-based superconductors as a probe of Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking

M. Marciani, L. Fanfarillo, C. Castellani, L. Benfatto

摘要:

自从它们被发现以来,有人认为pnictides中的配对可以通过空穴和电子带之间的自旋波动来介导。在这种观点下,多带超导性将与其他系统(如MgB 2)有很大不同,其中配对主要是带内的。事实上,带间主导的配对导致成键和反键超导通道的共存。在这里,我们表明,这对低能超导集体模式的性质产生了深远的影响。特别是,所谓的Leggett模式的相位波动是不存在的,在通常的两个波段的描述pnictides。另一方面,当考虑到空穴带之间的排斥时,应该使用更一般的三带描述,然后允许Leggett模式。这样的模型,已提出的强烈空穴掺杂的122化合物,也可以承认一个低温的s+是相,打破了时间反演对称性。我们表明,(量子和热)从普通超导体的s+是状态的过渡是伴随着消失的质量Leggett的相位波动,无论具体的相互作用参数的值。这个一般的结果可以通过一个广义的集体自由度的有效作用的建设,使我们也可以处理的非平凡的情况下,占主导地位的带间配对。

英文摘要:

Since their discovery, it has been suggested that pairing in pnictides can be mediated by spin fluctuations between hole and electron bands. In this view, multiband superconductivity would substantially differ from other systems like MgB2, where pairing is predominantly intraband. Indeed, interband-dominated pairing leads to the coexistence of bonding and antibonding superconducting channels. Here we show that this has profound consequences on the nature of the low-energy superconducting collective modes. In particular, the so-called Leggett mode for phase fluctuations is absent in the usual two-band description of pnictides. On the other hand, when also the repulsion between the hole bands is taken into account, a more general three-band description should be used, and a Leggett mode is then allowed. Such a model, that has been proposed for strongly hole-doped 122 compounds, can also admit a low-temperature s+is phase which breaks the time reversal symmetry. We show that the (quantum and thermal) transition from the ordinary superconductor to the s+is state is accompanied by the vanishing of the mass of Leggett-like phase fluctuations, regardless the specific values of the interaction parameters. This general result can be obtained by means of a generalized construction of the effective action for the collective degrees of freedom that allows us also to deal with the non-trivial case of dominant interband pairing.

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