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Higher angular momentum pairings in interorbital shadowed-triplet superconductors: Application to Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$

Superconductivity 2021-10-01 v2

Abstract

Even-parity interorbital spin-triplet pairing emerges as an intriguing candidate in multiorbital superconductors with significant Hund's and spin-orbit coupling. Within such a state, the pairing is dominated by the intraband pseudospin-singlet component via the spin-orbit coupling, distinguishing it from a pure spin triplet and motivating the name, shadowed triplet. With atomic spin-orbit coupling, it was shown that this pairing exhibits an anisotropic ss-wave character, while higher angular momentum pairing symmetries such as dd- or gg-wave have been proposed based on phenomenological analyses in candidate systems. A natural question is then whether higher angular momentum pairings may arise with this form of spin-triplet pairing. Here, we examine the interplay between spin-orbit coupling and the electronic dispersions in correlated metals and demonstrate how they can be realized. We apply this idea to Sr2_{2}RuO4_{4} and determine the competition among different pairing states as multiple spin-orbit coupling parameters are tuned. The presence of both dd- and gg-wave pairings, including a d+igd+ig state, are found when momentum-dependent spin-orbit coupling with dd-wave character is increased. Implications of the theory and future directions are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2107.00047,
  title  = {Higher angular momentum pairings in interorbital shadowed-triplet superconductors: Application to Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$},
  author = {Jonathan Clepkens and Austin W. Lindquist and Xiaoyu Liu and Hae-Young Kee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00047},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures