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Effects of the interplay between fermionic interactions and disorders in the nodal-line superconductors

Superconductivity 2023-08-09 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the interplay between fermion-fermion interactions and disorder scatterings beneath the superconducting dome of noncentrosymmetric nodal-line superconductors. With the application of renormalization group, several interesting low-energy behaviors are extracted from the coupled equations of all interaction parameters. At the clean limit, fermion-fermion interactions decrease with lowering the energy scales but conversely fermion velocities climb up and approach certain saturated values. This yields a slight decrease or increase of the anisotropy of fermion velocities depending upon their initial ratio. After bringing out four kinds of disorders designated by the random charge (Δ1\Delta_{1}), random mass (Δ2\Delta_{2}), random axial chemical potential (Δ3\Delta_{3}), and spin-orbit scatterers (Δ4\Delta_{4}) based on their own unique features, we begin with presenting the distinct low-energy fates of these disorders. For the presence of sole disorder, its strength becomes either relevant (Δ1,4\Delta_{1,4}) or irrelevant(Δ2,3\Delta_{2,3}) in the low-energy regime. However, the competition for multiple sorts of disorders is capable of qualitatively reshaping the low-energy properties of disorders Δ2,3,4\Delta_{2,3,4}. Besides, it can generate an initially absent disorder as long as two of Δ1,2,3\Delta_{1,2,3} are present. In addition, the fermion-fermion couplings are insensitive to the presence of Δ4\Delta_4 but rather substantially modified by Δ1\Delta_1, Δ2\Delta_2, or Δ3\Delta_3, and evolve towards zero or certain finite non-zero values under the coexistence of distinct disorders. Furthermore, the fermion velocities flow towards certain finite saturated value for the only presence of Δ2,3\Delta_{2,3} and vanish for all other situations. As to their ratio, it acquires a little increase once the disorder is subordinate to fermionic interactions, otherwise keeps some fixed constant.

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@article{arxiv.2212.02356,
  title  = {Effects of the interplay between fermionic interactions and disorders in the nodal-line superconductors},
  author = {Wen-Hao Bian and Xiao-Zhuo Chu and Jing Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02356},
  year   = {2023}
}

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22 pages, 25 figures