We investigate the dynamics of superconducting fluctuations in the attractive three-dimensional Hubbard model after a quench from the disordered phase to the ordered regime. While the long time evolution is well understood in terms of dissipative time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau models with unstable potentials, early times are more demanding due to the inseparable dynamics of the pairing fluctuations and the electronic quasiparticles. Our simulation using the time-dependent fluctuation exchange approximation treat both degrees of freedom on the same footing and reveal a non-thermal electronic regime causing a non-monotonous growth of the fluctuations. This feature is not directly captured from the Ginzburg-Landau theory, but nevertheless remains observable beyond the thermalization time of the electrons. We further explore how the growth of the order parameter fluctuations leads to an opening of a pseudo-gap in the electronic spectrum, and identify Andreev reflections as the dominant mechanism behind the gap opening.
Quench Spectroscopy of Magnetic Excitations on a Superconducting Quantum Processor
IBM Research(IBM研究院);University of Southampton(南安普顿大学);The Hartree Centre, STFC(STFC哈特里中心);University College London(伦敦大学学院);University of Oxford(牛津大学);University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学)
Quenched nematic criticality separating two superconducting domes in an iron-based superconductor under pressure
电子态及其相关的临界涨落已经成为各种非常规超导体中超导配对的潜在候选者。然而,在大多数材料中,它们与其他磁有序相的共存对确定它们的重要性提出了重大挑战。在这里,通过结合化学和流体静力学的物理压力在FeSe $_{0.89}$ S $_{0.11}$,我们提供了一个独特的访问一个干净的量子相变的情况下的远程磁秩序。我们发现在超导相变附近,高温下电阻率的非费米液体行为在最低温度下演变为费米液体行为。从高磁场中的量子振荡,我们跟踪费米面和电子关联的演化作为施加压力的函数。我们检测实验的Lifshitz过渡,分离两个不同的超导区域:一个新兴的电子相位与一个小的费米面和强电子相关性和其他一个大的费米面和弱相关性,促进嵌套和稳定的磁有序相在高压下。质量发散的缺乏表明临界涨落被晶格的强耦合淬灭。这表明在没有磁序的情况下,超导性在量子相变时不会增强。
Periodic dynamics in superconductors induced by an impulsive optical quench
许多实验已经证明了光激发后增强的超导关联的签名。最初,这些实验被解释为由于准静态变化的哈密顿参数,例如,由于晶格变形或熔化的竞争相。然而,最近的几次观测表明,这些结构要么是不正确的,要么没有捕捉到所有观察到的现象,包括反射率超过1,约瑟夫森等离子体边缘的大位移,以及太赫兹反射率出现新的峰值。这些观测结果可以从Floquet理论的角度来解释,该理论涉及系统参数的周期性驱动,但潜在振荡的起源仍不清楚。在本文中,我们表明,以下的非相干光激发,长寿命的振荡通常预计在超导体与低能量约瑟夫森等离子体,如铜酸盐或富勒烯超导体K $_3$ C $_{60}$。这些振荡产生的等离子体激元对由于泵引起的超导序参量扰动的参数生成。我们表明,这种双等离子体激元响应可以持续甚至高于转变温度,只要存在强超导波动。我们的分析提供了一个强大的框架来理解光致超导行为,预测的双等离子体激元振荡可以直接检测使用现有的实验技术。