2022/10/03 by S. Das, Das, S., H. Paudyal +7 · 2 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Iron-based superconductors research #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum many-body systems #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.00745
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Ising superconductivity, observed experimentally in NbSe2 and similar materials, has generated tremendous interest. Recently, attention was called to the possible role that spin fluctuations (SF) play in this phenomenon, in addition to the dominant electron-phonon coupling (EPC); the possibility of a predominantly-triplet state was discussed and led to a conjecture of viable singlet-triplet Leggett oscillations. However, these hypotheses have not been put to a quantitative test. In this paper, we report first principle calculations of the EPC and also estimate coupling with SF, including full momentum dependence. We find that: (1) EPC is strongly anisotropic, largely coming from the K-K' scattering, and therefore excludes triplet symmetry even as an excited state; (2) superconductivity is substantially weakened by SF, but anisotropy remains as above; and, (3) we do find the possibility of a Leggett mode, not in a singlet-triplet but in an s++ - s_± channel.