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Classification of pair symmetries in superconductors with unconventional magnetism

Superconductivity 2025-04-22 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We consider unconventional magnets with proximity-induced superconductivity and investigate the emergence of superconducting correlations by carrying out a full classification of allowed Cooper pair symmetries. In particular, we focus on dd-wave altermagnets and pp-wave magnets under the influence of spin-singlet and spin-triplet superconductivity induced by proximity effect. Under generic conditions, we find that unconventional magnets not only drive a spin-singlet to spin-triplet conversion but also they transfer their parity symmetry that induces superconducting correlations with higher angular momentum. For instance, a conventional spin-singlet ss-wave superconductor with dd-wave altermagnetism is able to host odd-frequency mixed spin-triplet dd-wave superconducting pair amplitudes, while when combining with pp-wave magnetism the emerging superconducting pairing acquires an even-frequency mixed spin-triplet pp-wave symmetry. We further demonstrate that unconventional magnetism produces even more exotic superconducting correlations in spin-singlet dd-wave superconductors, where odd-frequency mixed spin-triplet gg-wave and even-frequency mixed spin-triplet ff-wave pair symmetries are possible in altermagnets and pp-wave magnets, respectively. We also discuss how these ideas generalize to spin-triplet pp-wave superconductors and also show how our results can be applied to unconventional magnets with higher angular momentum, such as with ff-, gg-, and ii-wave symmetries. Our results can help understand the emergent superconducting correlations due to the interplay of unconventional magnetism and superconductivity.

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@article{arxiv.2501.08646,
  title  = {Classification of pair symmetries in superconductors with unconventional magnetism},
  author = {Kazuki Maeda and Yuri Fukaya and Keiji Yada and Bo Lu and Yukio Tanaka and Jorge Cayao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08646},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 10 figures. Published version