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Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate in noncentrosymmetric superconductor Y$_2$C$_3$

Superconductivity 2016-08-04 v1

Abstract

For a noncentrosymmetric superconductor such as Y2_2C3_3, we consider a parity-mixing model composed of spin-singlet s-wave and spin-triplet f-wave pairing components. The dd-vector in f-wave state is chosen to be parallel to the Dresselhaus asymmetric spin-orbit coupling vector. It is found that, the quasiparticle excitation spectrum exhibits distinct nodal structure as a consequence of parity-mixing. Our calculation predict anomalous noninteger power laws for low-temperature nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate T11T_{1}^{-1}. We demonstrate particularly that such a model can qualitatively account for the existing experimental results of the temperature dependence of T11T_{1}^{-1} in Y2_2C3_3.

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@article{arxiv.1608.01190,
  title  = {Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate in noncentrosymmetric superconductor Y$_2$C$_3$},
  author = {Chongju Chen and Biao Jin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01190},
  year   = {2016}
}