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In the light of the recently discussed mechanism for suppression of superconductivity in multi-orbital systems called inter-orbital effect, here we extend our analysis of the upper critical field in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ now under strain. We show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-04-26 Aline Ramires , Manfred Sigrist

Recent nuclear magnetic resonance studies [A. Pustogow {\it et al.}, arXiv:1904.00047] have challenged the prevalent chiral triplet pairing scenario proposed for Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. To provide guidance from microscopic theory as to which other…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-16 A. T. Rømer , D. D. Scherer , I. M. Eremin , P. J. Hirschfeld , B. M. Andersen

The possible superconducting states of strontium ruthenate (Sr$_2$RuO$_4$) are organized into irreducible representations of the point group $D_{4h}$, with a special emphasis on nodes occurring within the superconducting gap. Our analysis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-25 S. -O. Kaba , D. Sénéchal

Unconventional superconductivity in Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ has been intensively studied for decades. The origin and nature of the pairing continues to be widely debated, in particular, the possibility of a triplet origin of Cooper pairs.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-20 Swagata Acharya , Dimitar Pashov , Cédric Weber , Hyowon Park , Lorenzo Sponza , Mark van Schilfgaarde

Unambiguous identification of the superconducting order parameter symmetry of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ has remained elusive for more than a quarter century. While a chiral $p$-wave ground state analogue to superfluid $^3$He-$A$ was ruled out only very…

We study the orbital-dependent superconducting pairing in a five-orbital t-J1-J2 model for iron pnictides. Depending on the orbital selectivity of electron correlations and the orbital characters along the Fermi surface, the superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-01-29 Rong Yu , Jian-Xin Zhu , Qimiao Si

Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is a prototypical multi-band superconductor with three bands crossing the Fermi level. These bands exhibit distinct dimensional characteristics, with one quasi-2D $\gamma$-band and two quasi-1D $\alpha$- and $\beta$-bands.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-12 Wen Huang , Thomas Scaffidi , Manfred Sigrist , Catherine Kallin

Hund's pairing refers to Cooper pairing generated by onsite interactions that become attractive due to large Hund's exchange $J$. This is possible in multiorbital systems even when all local bare interactions are repulsive, since attraction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-13 Mercè Roig , Astrid T. Rømer , Andreas Kreisel , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen

Transformation of Coulomb interaction terms to the pseudo-orbital basis constituted by $J=1/2$ and $3/2$ states arising from spin-orbit coupling provides a versatile tool. This formalism is applied to investigate magnetic anisotropy effects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-11 Shubhajyoti Mohapatra , Avinash Singh

We propose a general scheme to probe the compatibility of arbitrary pairing states with a given normal state Hamiltonian by the introduction of a concept called superconducting fitness. This new quantity gives a direct measure of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-14 Aline Ramires , Manfred Sigrist

Using an asymptotically exact weak coupling analysis of a multi-orbital Hubbard model of the electronic structure of \SRO, we show that the interplay between spin and charge fluctuations leads unequivocally to triplet pairing which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-19 S. Raghu , A. Kapitulnik , S. A. Kivelson

We analyze the magnetic excitations and the spin-mediated superconductivity in iron-based superconductors within a low-energy model that operates in the band basis but fully incorporates the orbital character of the spin excitations. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-08 R. Fernández-Martin , M. J. Calderón , L. Fanfarillo , B. Valenzuela

Influence of a spiral spin structure on the superconducting (SC) pairing in the most probable active $\gamma$ band of $Sr_2RuO_4$ is studied in the mean field approximation. Such structure with "incommensurate" vector $Q=2\pi(1/3,1/3)$ has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Ovchinnikov , M. Ya. Ovchinnikova

The superconducting gap function of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ was investigated by means of quasiparticle reflection and transmission at the normal conductor-superconductor interface of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$-Pt point contacts. We found two distinguishly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Laube , G. Goll , H. v. Löhneysen , M. Fogelström , F. Lichtenberg

Despite of many experimental and theoretical efforts, the pairing symmetry of superconductivity in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ remains undecided. The accidentally degenerate $d_{x^2-y^2}+ig$ is consistent with most current experiments and seems to be one…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-24 Yutao Sheng , Yu Li , Yi-feng Yang

We investigated the low-energy incommensurate (IC) magnetic fluctuations in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ by the high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering measurements and random phase approximation (RPA) calculations. We observed a spin resonance with…

Strontium ruthenate (Sr$_2$RuO$_4$) has long been thought to host a spin-triplet chiral $p$-wave superconducting state. However, the singletlike response observed in recent spin-susceptibility measurements casts serious doubts on this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-23 Han Gyeol Suh , Henri Menke , P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm , Aline Ramires , Daniel F. Agterberg

We study the (001) surface state of a recently proposed $E_g$ symmetry inter-orbital-odd spin-triplet s-wave superconducting (SC) state in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ (SRO). We confirm that this pair potential is transformed into a chiral $d$-wave pair…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-04 Satoshi Ando , Satoshi Ikegaya , Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka , Keiji Yada

We report on tunneling spectroscopy measurements using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) on the spin triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4. We find a negligible density of states close to the Fermi level and a fully opened gap with a value of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-02 H. Suderow , V. Crespo , I. Guillamon , S. Vieira , F. Servant , P. Lejay , J. P. Brison , J. Flouquet

We study the spin susceptibility of the orbital-singlet pairings, including the spin-triplet/orbital-singlet/$s$-wave $E_g$ representation proposed by Suh \textit{et al}., [H.\ G.\ Suh \textit{et al}., Phys.\ Rev.\ Research \textbf{2},…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-22 Yuri Fukaya , Tatsuki Hashimoto , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka , Keiji Yada