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密度波态的Skyrmions:手征超导机制

Skyrmions in a density wave state: a mechanism for chiral superconductivity

Sudip Chakravarty, Chen-Hsuan Hsu

摘要:

在关联电子系统中,对称破缺态是表征较高角动量密度波的有趣对象。在角动量表征方案中,常规的电荷和自旋密度波对应于零角动量。在这里,我们探讨了一类奇异的密度波状态,在最近发现的拓扑绝缘体中观察到的拓扑特性。这些丰富的拓扑密度波态不仅在高温超导体中值得关注,而且在其他相关电子态中也值得关注,例如在重费米子中,将讨论一个明确的例子,所讨论的状态具有非平凡的电荷$2e$ skyrmionic自旋织构。这些Skyrmion可以凝聚成带电的超流体。或者,它们可以分成meron和anti-meron。在绝缘相中被限制在skyrmions中的分馏粒子可以在分离绝缘相和超导相的非限定量子临界点出现。这些分数粒子形成打破时间反演对称性的双组分自旋单重手征$(d_{x^2-y^2}\pm id_{xy})$波超导态。这种奇异的顺序的重费米子材料URu $_2$ Si $_2$的超导态的可能的连接建议。这种手征超导态的直接证据是最近观察到的极性克尔效应。

英文摘要:

Broken symmetry states characterizing density waves of higher angular momentum in correlated electronic systems are intriguing objects. In the scheme of characterization by angular momentum, conventional charge and spin density waves correspond to zero angular momentum. Here we explore a class of exotic density wave states that have topological properties observed in recently discovered topological insulators. These rich topological density wave states deserve closer attention in not only high temperature superconductors but in other correlated electron states, as in heavy fermions, of which an explicit example will be discussed.The state discussed has non-trivial charge $2e$ skyrmionic spin texture. These skyrmions can condense into a charged superfluid. Alternately, they can fractionalize into merons and anti-merons. The fractionalized particles that are confined in skyrmions in the insulating phase, can emerge at a deconfined quantum critical point, which separates the insulating and the superconducting phases. These fractional particles form a two-component spin-singlet chiral $(d_{x^2-y^2}\pm id_{xy})$ wave superconducting state that breaks time reversal symmetry. Possible connections of this exotic order to the superconducting state in the heavy-fermion material URu$_2$Si$_2$ are suggested. The direct evidence of such a chiral superconducting state is polar Kerr effect that was observed recently.

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