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The type I superconductor lead (Pb) has been theoretically predicted to be a two-band superconductor. We use scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) to resolve two superconducting gaps with an energy difference of 150$\,\mu$eV. Tunneling into…

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We calculate the infrared conductivity of a stack of coupled, two-dimensional superconducting planes within the Fermi liquid theory of superconductivity. We include the effects of random scattering processes and show that the presence of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. Graf , Mario Palumbo , D. Rainer , J. A. Sauls

We have investigated the optimally doped tri-layer cuprate Bi$_2$Sr$_2$Ca$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{10+\delta}$ (Bi2223) by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and observed energy bands and Fermi surfaces originated from the outer and inner…

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Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-01 B. Valenzuela , M. J. Calderon , G. Leon , E. Bascones

There has long been a discrepancy between microwave conductivity measurements in high temperature superconductors and the conductivity spectrum expected in the simplest models for impurity scattering in a d-wave superconductor. Here we…

Recent experiments make it appear more likely that the order parameter of the unconventional superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ has a spin-triplet $f$-wave symmetry. We study ultrasonic absorption and thermal conductivity of superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. C. Wu , R. Joynt

We observe an unconventional superconducting minigap induced into a ferromagnet SrRuO$_3$ from a spin-triplet superconductor Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ using a Au/SrTiO$_3$/SrRuO$_3$/Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ tunnel junction. Voltage bias differential conductance…

Microwave conductivity experiments can directly measure the quasiparticle scattering rate in the superconducting state. We show that this, combined with knowledge of the Fermi surface geometry, allows one to distinguish between closely…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-14 D. C. Cavanagh , B. J. Powell

The tetragonal compound Sr2RuO4 exhibits a chiral p-wave superconducting (SC) state of its three t2g-type conduction bands. The characteristics of unconventional gap structure are known from experiment, in particular field-angle resolved…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-29 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier

We study the optical response of a strongly correlated electron system near the metal-insulator transition using a mapping to the sine-Gordon model. With semiclassical quantization, the spectral weight is distributed between a Drude peak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. N. Aristov , Vadim V. Cheianov , A. Luther

We explore possible superconducting states in $t_{2g}$ multi-orbital correlated electron systems with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In order to study such systems in a controlled manner, we employ large-scale dynamical mean-field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-24 Zi Yang Meng , Yong Baek Kim , Hae-Young Kee

Electromagnetic responses in superconductors provide valuable information on the pairing symmetry as well as physical quantities such as the superfluid density. However, at the superconducting gap energy scale, optical excitations of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-12 Junyeong Ahn , Naoto Nagaosa

We present results for the optical conductivity of Na2IrO3 within density functional theory by including spin-orbit (SO) and correlation effects (U) as implemented in GGA+SO+U. We identify the various interband transitions and show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-16 Ying Li , Kateryna Foyevtsova , Harald O. Jeschke , Roser Valenti

We report the first determination of the in-plane complex optical conductivity of 1111 high-Tc superconducting iron oxypnictide single crystals PrFeAsO0.6F0.35 and thin films SmFeAsO1-xFx by means of bulk-sensitive conventional and…

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

Triplet superconductivity in Sr_2RuO_4 is investigated with main interest on its internal degree of freedom. We perform a microscopic calculation to investigate how the chiral state d(k) = (k_x \pm ik_y)z is realized among the underlying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Youichi Yanase , Masao Ogata

To compare the superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems with the antiferromagnetic fluctuations in the copper oxides and with the ferromagnetic fluctuations in Sr_2RuO_4 a t-J-I model is proposed. The antiferromagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. V. Kuz'min , S. G. Ovchinnikov

Discoveries of marked similarities to high-$T_{\text{c}}$ cuprate superconductors point to the realization of superconductivity in the doped $J_{\text{eff}} = 1 / 2$ Mott insulator Sr$_2$IrO$_4$. Contrary to the mother compound of cuprate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-25 Shuntaro Sumita , Takuya Nomoto , Youichi Yanase

We report the complex optical conductivity of a superconducting thin-film of Nb$_{0.5}$Ti$_{0.5}$N in an external magnetic field. The field was applied parallel to the film surface and the conductivity extracted from far-infrared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-04 Xiaoxiang Xi , J. Hwang , C. Martin , D. B. Tanner , G. L. Carr

The quasi-2D metal Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is one of the best characterized unconventional superconductors, yet the nature of its superconducting order parameter is still highly debated. This information is crucial to determine the pairing mechanism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-18 S. Benhabib , C. Lupien , I. Paul , L. Berges , M. Dion , M. Nardone , A. Zitouni , Z. Q. Mao , Y. Maeno , A. Georges , L. Taillefer , C. Proust