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Inverse Faraday effect in superconductors with potential impurities

Superconductivity 2024-08-28 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

I consider a nonlinear response of conventional superconductors contaminated with potential impurities or imperfections to a circular polarized light. I focus on dc contributions to the induced current density which describe the emergence of the static magnetization in a superconductor. This effect is known as inverse Faraday effect. By employing quasiclassical theory of superconductivity I derive an expression for the induced static magnetization as a function of frequency of an external ac field and disorder scattering rate. The scattering of electrons off potential impurities is taken into account within the framework of the self-consistent Born approximation. It is found that the magnitude of the inverse Faraday effect decreases with an increase in disorder scattering rate. I have also discovered that the value of the induced magnetization has a characteristic minimum at a frequency which approximately equals twice the value of the pairing gap in a clean superconductor and shifts to higher values with an increase in disorder scattering rate.

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@article{arxiv.2402.09517,
  title  = {Inverse Faraday effect in superconductors with potential impurities},
  author = {Maxim Dzero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09517},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures, 56 references

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