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Title: Superconductor-metal transition in odd-frequency–paired superconductor in a magnetic field

Abstract

Significance It is generally expected that when a magnetic field destroys superconductivity in two dimensions, the system becomes an insulator. It is shown that there is a type of superconductivity—namely, the one where the wave function of pairs is odd in time—where the result is not an insulator, but a metal with a zero Hall response. It is suggested that the transition recently observed in the striped-ordered high- T c superconductor La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4 may belong to this category.

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  1. Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1525530
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1524553
Report Number(s):
BNL-211717-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 116 Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; superconductivity; Kondo lattice; strongly correlated systems

Citation Formats

Tsvelik, A. M. Superconductor-metal transition in odd-frequency–paired superconductor in a magnetic field. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1902928116.
Tsvelik, A. M. Superconductor-metal transition in odd-frequency–paired superconductor in a magnetic field. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902928116
Tsvelik, A. M. Mon . "Superconductor-metal transition in odd-frequency–paired superconductor in a magnetic field". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902928116.
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abstractNote = {Significance It is generally expected that when a magnetic field destroys superconductivity in two dimensions, the system becomes an insulator. It is shown that there is a type of superconductivity—namely, the one where the wave function of pairs is odd in time—where the result is not an insulator, but a metal with a zero Hall response. It is suggested that the transition recently observed in the striped-ordered high- T c superconductor La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4 may belong to this category.},
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journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
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place = {United States},
year = {2019},
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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: A.) Spinon (thick blue) and electron (faint) Fermi surfaces in the array of 1D Kondo-Heisenberg ladders. In the limit when ladders are decoupled the Fermi surfaces are flat and exhibit a perfect nesting. Then spinons and electrons with opposite chirality hybridize and create spin gaps. The spin subsystemmore » decouples into two independent spin liquids made as indicated by arrows. B.) The bare spinon (blue) and electron (yellow) spectra. The Fermi momenta do not coincide.« less

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