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Spin susceptibility for orbital-singlet Cooper pair in the three-dimensional Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ superconductor

Superconductivity 2022-02-22 v4

Abstract

We study the spin susceptibility of the orbital-singlet pairings, including the spin-triplet/orbital-singlet/ss-wave EgE_g representation proposed by Suh \textit{et al}., [H.\ G.\ Suh \textit{et al}., Phys.\ Rev.\ Research \textbf{2}, 032023 (2020)], for a three-orbital model of superconducting Sr2_2RuO4_4 in three dimensions. For the pseudospin-singlet states represented in the band basis, the spin susceptibility decreases when reducing the temperature, irrespective of the direction of the applied magnetic fields, even if they are spin-triplet/orbital-singlet pairings in the spin-orbital space. However, because the pseudospin-triplet \textbf{d}-vector in the band basis is not completely aligned in the xyxy-plane (along zz-axis) owing to the strong atomic spin-orbit coupling, the spin susceptibility for spin-singlet/orbital-singlet/odd-parity pairings is reduced around 55-1010 percent with the decrease of the temperature along the zz (xx) axis. We can determine the symmetry of the pseudospin structure of the Cooper pair by the temperature dependence of the spin susceptibility measured by nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. Our obtained results serve as a guide to determine the pairing symmetry of Sr2_2RuO4_4.

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@article{arxiv.2108.06718,
  title  = {Spin susceptibility for orbital-singlet Cooper pair in the three-dimensional Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ superconductor},
  author = {Yuri Fukaya and Tatsuki Hashimoto and Masatoshi Sato and Yukio Tanaka and Keiji Yada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06718},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

13 pages, 6 figures, published as a regular article in Physical Review Research