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The body centered tetragonal structure of Sr_2RuO_4 gives rise to umklapp scattering enhanced inter-plane pair correlations in the d_{yz} and d_{zx} orbitals. Based on symmetry arguments, Hund's rule coupling, and a bosonized description of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralph Werner

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity is a quintessential unconventional quantum state. In Josephson junctions, time-reversal symmetry breaking manifests itself in the supercurrent interference pattern as the invariance of the…

Sr2RuO4 is at present the best candidate for being a superconducting analogue of the triplet superfluidity in ^3He. This material is a good (albeit correlated) Fermi liquid in the normal state and an exotic superconductor below Tc. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 K. I. Wysokinski , G. Litak , J. F. Annett , B. L. Gyorffy

The nature of the Cooper pairing in the paradigmatic unconventional superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is an outstanding puzzle in condensed matter physics. Despite the tremendous efforts made in the past twenty-seven years, neither the pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-20 Wen Huang

In this short review, we aim to provide a topical update on the status of efforts to understand the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4. We concentrate on the quest to identify a superconducting order parameter symmetry that is compatible with all…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-08 Andrew P Mackenzie , Thomas Scaffidi , Clifford W Hicks , Yoshiteru Maeno

A combination of density functional theory in its local density approximation (LDA) with k- and $\omega $ dependent self-energy found from fluctuational-exchange-type random phase approximation (FLEX-RPA) is utilized here to study…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-12 Griffin Heier , Sergey Y. Savrasov

Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is a leading candidate for chiral $p$-wave superconductivity. The detailed mechanism of superconductivity in this material is still the subject of intense investigations. Since superconductivity is sensitive to the topology of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-22 Y. C. Liu , F. C. Zhang , T. M. Rice , Q. H. Wang

It is widely believed that the perovskite Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is an unconventional superconductor with broken time reversal symmetry. It has been predicted that superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry should have spontaneously…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-11 J. R. Kirtley , C. Kallin , C. W. Hicks , E. -A. Kim , Y. Liu , K. A. Moler , Y. Maeno , K. D. Nelson

Superconductivity in Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ is unconventional, believed to be of $p_{x}\pm ip_{y}$ pairing symmetry. These two degenerate order parameters allow the formation of chiral domains separated by domain walls. In a Josephson junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-09 Francoise Kidwingira , Joel D. Strand , D. J. Van Harlingen , Yoshiteru Maeno

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 state in the quasi-two-dimensional and strongly correlated Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is uniquely held up as a solid state analog to superfluid $^3$He-$A$, with an odd-parity order parameter that also breaks time reversal symmetry,…

We present scanning SQUID microscopy data on the superconductors Sr2RuO4 (Tc = 1.5 K) and PrOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$ (Tc = 1.8 K). In both of these materials, superconductivity-related time-reversal symmetry-breaking fields have been observed by…

The unusual superconducting state in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ has long been viewed as being analogous to a superfluid state in liquid $^3$He. Nevertheless, calculations based on this odd-parity state are presently unable to completely reconcile the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-12 J. J. Deisz , T. E. Kidd

It has been shown [1] that many seemingly contradictory experimental findings concerning the superconducting state in Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ can be accounted for as resulting from the existence of an assumed tetra-critical point at near ambient…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-01 Andrew C. Yuan , Erez Berg , Steven A. Kivelson

A lot of attention has been drawn to superconductivity in UTe$_2$, with suggestions of time-reversal symmetry breaking triplet chiral superconducting order parameter. The chirality of the order parameter has been attributed to an accidental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-12 Daniel Shaffer , Dmitry Chichinadze

We review the normal and superconducting state properties of the unconventional triplet superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ with an emphasis on the analysis of the magnetic susceptibility and the role played by strong electronic correlations. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Eremin , D. Manske , S. G. Ovchinnikov , J. F. Annett

Applying in-plane uniaxial pressure to strongly correlated low-dimensional systems has been shown to tune the electronic structure dramatically. For example, the unconventional superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ can be tuned through a single Van…

We study the dynamical spin susceptibility, $\chi({\bf q}, \omega)$, in the normal and superconducting state of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$. In the normal state, we find a peak in the vicinity of ${\bf Q}_i\simeq (0.72\pi,0.72\pi)$ in agreement with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-08 Dirk K. Morr , Peter F. Trautman , Matthias J. Graf

The effect of the Doppler shift is studied in a model for the $\alpha$-$\beta$ bands of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ consisting of two hybridized 1D bands. Assuming a superconducting gap with nodes in the diagonal directions, we examine the oscillation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Tanaka , K. Kuroki , Y. Tanuma , S. Kashiwaya

To establish the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity in Sr$_2$RUO$_4$, a prerequisite is direct information concerning the momentum-space structure of the energy gaps $\Delta_i(k)$, and in particular whether the pairing strength…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-22 I. A. Firmo , S. Lederer , C. Lupien , A. P. Mackenzie , J. C. Davis , S. A. Kivelson