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Visualizing Pairing Symmetry in Nematic Superconductors using spin-polarized spectroscopy of magnetic impurities

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-10-11 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We study the spin-polarized spectral properties of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov resonance states induced by magnetic impurities in 2- and 3-dimensional nematic superconductors: few layer Bi2_2Te3_3 grown on FeTe0.55_{0.55}Se0.45_{0.45} (2-dimensional) and Cux_xBi2_2Se3_3 (3-dimensional). We focus on the relationship between pairing symmetry and the topograph of spin-polarized spectroscopy. We calculate the spin-polarized local density of states (SP LDOS) and the corresponding Fourier transformation using the TT-matrix method for both the 2- and 3-dimensional materials. Various situations with different impurity orientations and different SP LDOSs have been investigated. We find that, like the quasiparticle interference spectrum, the SP LDOS can be applied to distinguish other pairings which preserve the threefold rotation symmetry of D3D_3 point group and nematic pairings in these materials.

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@article{arxiv.1905.07676,
  title  = {Visualizing Pairing Symmetry in Nematic Superconductors using spin-polarized spectroscopy of magnetic impurities},
  author = {Liang Chen and Ya-Li Zhang and Rong-Sheng Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07676},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

theoretical work, 10 pages, 4 figures