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Monopole Superconductivity in Magnetically Doped Cd$_3$As$_2$

Superconductivity 2024-06-25 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

When superconducting pairing occurs between Fermi surfaces with different Chern numbers, the Cooper pairs possess nontrivial pair Berry phase, which enforces pairing gap nodes. The resulting pairing order is further distinguished from the familiar ss-, pp-, and dd-wave pairing orders by a nonzero pair monopole charge and is described by monopole harmonics. To date, this exotic monopole pairing order is yet to be achieved experimentally. We therefore study the magnetically doped Dirac semimetal Cd3_3As2_2 as a candidate material for realizing monopole superconductivity with pair monopole charges qp=1q_p=1 or 22, depending on the chemical potential. For each case of pair monopole charge, we explore representatives of uniform pairing orders in all allowed irreducible representations of the C4hC_{4h} symmetry of magnetically doped Cd3_3As2_2. We demonstrate the distinctions in the monopole analogs of different higher partial wave superconducting orders that result from the combination of topological Fermi surfaces of higher Chern number and crystalline symmetry. In all cases, the patterns of the superconducting phase winding around a Fermi surface are constrained by the topologically invariant total winding number, which depends only on the pair monopole charge and requires nodes in the qp0q_p\neq 0 superconducting order. Our work can guide further experimental investigation of monopole orders in the topological semimetal Cd3_3As2_2 and can be generalized to other materials with Fermi surfaces of higher Chern number, which enforce monopole pairing order in higher partial waves, such as the monopole analog of ff-wave pairing.

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@article{arxiv.2204.04249,
  title  = {Monopole Superconductivity in Magnetically Doped Cd$_3$As$_2$},
  author = {Eric Bobrow and Yi Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04249},
  year   = {2024}
}
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