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Triplet superconductivity in 3D Dirac semimetal due to exchange interaction

Superconductivity 2015-06-22 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Conventional phonon-electron interaction induces either triplet or one of two (degenerate) singlet pairing states in time reversal and inversion invariant 3D Dirac semi - metal. Investigation of the order parameters and energies of these states at zero temperature in wide range of values of chemical potential μ\mu , the effective electron-electron coupling constant λ\lambda and Debye energy TDT_{D} demonstrates that when the exchange interaction is neglected the singlet always prevails, however in significant portions of the (μ,λ,TD)\left( \mu ,\lambda ,T_{D}\right) parameter space the energy difference is very small. This means that interactions that are small but discriminate between the spin singlet and the spin triplet are important in order to determine the nature of the superconducting order there. The best candidate for such an interaction in materials under consideration is the exchange (the Stoner term) characterized by constant λex\lambda _{ex}. We show that at values of λex\lambda _{ex} much smaller then ones creating Stoner instability to ferromagnetism λex1\lambda _{ex}\sim 1 the triplet pairing becomes energetically favored over the singlet ones for μ<TD\mu <T_{D}% . The 3D quantum critical point at μ=0\mu =0 is considered in detail.

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@article{arxiv.1407.0770,
  title  = {Triplet superconductivity in 3D Dirac semimetal due to exchange interaction},
  author = {Baruch Rosenstein and B. Ya. Shapiro and Dingping Li and I. Shapiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0770},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 11 figures