Effect of fluctuations on the NMR relaxation beyond the Abrikosov vortex state
Abstract
Here, the effect of fluctuations on the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation rate W = T–11 is studied in a complete phase diagram of a two-dimensional superconductor above the upper critical field line Hc2(T). In the region of relatively high temperatures and low magnetic fields, the relaxation rate W is determined by two competing effects. The first one is its decrease in the result of suppression of the quasiparticle density of states (DOS) due to formation of fluctuation Cooper pairs (FCPs). The second one is a specific, purely quantum relaxation process of the Maki-Thompson (MT) type, which for low field leads to an increase of the relaxation rate. The latter describes particular fluctuation processes involving self-pairing of a single electron on self-intersecting trajectories of a size up to phase-breaking length ℓΦ which becomes possible due to an electron spin-flip scattering event at a nucleus. As a result, different scenarios with either growth or decrease of the NMR relaxation rate are possible upon approaching the normal-metal–type-II superconductor transition. The character of fluctuations changes along the line Hc2(T) from the thermal long-wavelength type in weak magnetic fields to the clusters of rotating FCPs in fields comparable to Hc2(0). We find that belowmore »
- Authors:
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); CNR-SPIN, Rome (Italy)
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1356371
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1212956
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1098-0121
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Glatz, A., Galda, A., and Varlamov, A. A. Effect of fluctuations on the NMR relaxation beyond the Abrikosov vortex state. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.054513.
Glatz, A., Galda, A., & Varlamov, A. A. Effect of fluctuations on the NMR relaxation beyond the Abrikosov vortex state. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.054513
Glatz, A., Galda, A., and Varlamov, A. A. Tue .
"Effect of fluctuations on the NMR relaxation beyond the Abrikosov vortex state". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.054513. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1356371.
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title = {Effect of fluctuations on the NMR relaxation beyond the Abrikosov vortex state},
author = {Glatz, A. and Galda, A. and Varlamov, A. A.},
abstractNote = {Here, the effect of fluctuations on the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation rate W = T–11 is studied in a complete phase diagram of a two-dimensional superconductor above the upper critical field line Hc2(T). In the region of relatively high temperatures and low magnetic fields, the relaxation rate W is determined by two competing effects. The first one is its decrease in the result of suppression of the quasiparticle density of states (DOS) due to formation of fluctuation Cooper pairs (FCPs). The second one is a specific, purely quantum relaxation process of the Maki-Thompson (MT) type, which for low field leads to an increase of the relaxation rate. The latter describes particular fluctuation processes involving self-pairing of a single electron on self-intersecting trajectories of a size up to phase-breaking length ℓΦ which becomes possible due to an electron spin-flip scattering event at a nucleus. As a result, different scenarios with either growth or decrease of the NMR relaxation rate are possible upon approaching the normal-metal–type-II superconductor transition. The character of fluctuations changes along the line Hc2(T) from the thermal long-wavelength type in weak magnetic fields to the clusters of rotating FCPs in fields comparable to Hc2(0). We find that below the well-defined temperature T*0 ≈ 0.6Tc0, the MT process becomes ineffective even in the absence of intrinsic pair breaking. The small scale of the FCP rotations ξxy in such high fields impedes formation of long (≲ℓΦ) self-intersecting trajectories, causing the corresponding relaxation mechanism to lose its efficiency. This reduces the effect of superconducting fluctuations in the domain of high fields and low temperatures to just the suppression of quasiparticle DOS, analogous to the Abrikosov vortex phase below the Hc2(T) line.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.92.054513},
journal = {Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
number = 5,
volume = 92,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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