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arXiv 2005.08007cond-mat.supr-concond-mat.mtrl-sci
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拓扑单层WTe $_2$的自旋轨道宇称耦合超导电性

Spin-orbit-parity coupled superconductivity in topological monolayer WTe$_2$

Ying-Ming Xie, Benjamin T. Zhou, K. T. Law

摘要:

最近的实验报道了单层1 T $'$中的栅极诱导超导性,该单层1 T $'$-WTe是处于其正常状态的二维拓扑绝缘体[1,2]。发现面内上临界场$B_{c2}$超过常规泡利顺磁极限$B_p$ 1-3倍。这种增强不能用传统的自旋-轨道耦合来解释,这种耦合由于反转对称性而消失。在这项工作中,我们揭示了中心对称的1 T $'$的一些独特的超导性质,这些性质产生于自旋、动量和带宇称自由度的耦合。由于这种自旋-轨道-宇称耦合:(i)在远高于泡利顺磁极限$B_p$的$B_{c2}$处存在一级超导体-金属跃迁,(ii)自旋磁化率相对于面内方向是各向异性的,并且导致各向异性的$B_{c2}$,以及(iii)由于自旋-轨道-奇偶耦合仅在拓扑带交叉点附近是显著的,所以$B_{c2}$表现出强的栅极依赖性。本文还讨论了SOPC对拓扑非平凡轨道间配对相位的重要性。我们的理论一般适用于拓扑带反转的中心对称材料。

英文摘要:

Recent experiments reported gate-induced superconductivity in the monolayer 1T$'$-WTe$_2$ which is a two-dimensional topological insulator in its normal state [1, 2]. The in-plane upper critical field $B_{c2}$ is found to exceed the conventional Pauli paramagnetic limit $B_p$ by 1-3 times. The enhancement cannot be explained by conventional spin-orbit coupling which vanishes due to inversion symmetry. In this work, we unveil some distinctive superconducting properties of centrosymmetric 1T$'$-WTe$_2$ which arise from the coupling of spin, momentum and band parity degrees of freedom. As a result of this spin-orbit-parity coupling: (i) there is a first-order superconductor-metal transition at $B_{c2}$ much higher than the Pauli paramagnetic limit $B_p$, (ii) spin-susceptibility is anisotropic with respect to in-plane directions and results in anisotropic $B_{c2}$ and (iii) the $B_{c2}$ exhibits a strong gate dependence as the spin-orbit-parity coupling is significant only near the topological band crossing points. The importance of SOPC on the topologically nontrivial inter-orbital pairing phase is also discussed. Our theory generally applies to centrosymmetric materials with topological band inversions.

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