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Superconductivity of mixed parity and frequency in an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling

2019/06/19 by Biderang, Mehdi, Zare, Mohammad-Hossein, Akbari, Alireza
#FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.08130

Abstract

We illuminate the superconducting phases in [001]-grown-noncentrosymmetric quantum wells with an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling in the presence of on-site Hubbard interaction. Within the random phase approximation, we investigate the spin-fluctuation-mediated pairing in the presence of Rashba/Dresselhaus antisymmetric spin-orbit couplings. Although the existence of spatial inversion symmetry desires a dominant d-wave pairing for all filling levels, a broken inversion symmetry generates antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling and mixes the even- and odd-parity in the superconducting gap. We study the symmetry of the mixed-parity gap for various strengths of Hubbard interaction. Besides, we consider a superconductor-ferromagnet junction to survey the modifications of superconducting order parameters and observe an admixture of even- and odd-frequencies due to the ferromagnet exchange field.

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