31 research outputs found
Magnon Exchange Mechanism of Ferromagnetic Superconductivity
The magnon exchange mechanism of ferromagnetic superconductivity
(FM-superconductivity) was developed to explain in a natural way the fact that
the superconductivity in , and is confined to the
ferromagnetic phase.The order parameter is a spin anti-parallel component of a
spin-1 triplet with zero spin projection. The transverse spin fluctuations are
pair forming and the longitudinal ones are pair breaking. In the present paper,
a superconducting solution, based on the magnon exchange mechanism, is obtained
which closely matches the experiments with and . The onset of
superconductivity leads to the appearance of complicated Fermi surfaces in the
spin up and spin down momentum distribution functions. Each of them consist of
two pieces, but they are simple-connected and can be made very small by varying
the microscopic parameters. As a result, it is obtained that the specific heat
depends on the temperature linearly, at low temperature, and the coefficient
is smaller in the superconducting phase than in the
ferromagnetic one. The absence of a quantum transition from ferromagnetism to
ferromagnetic superconductivity in a weak ferromagnets and is
explained accounting for the contribution of magnon self-interaction to the
spin fluctuations' parameters. It is shown that in the presence of an external
magnetic field the system undergoes a first order quantum phase transition.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.
Breakup of a Stoner model for the 2D ferromagnetic quantum critical point
Re-interpretation of the results by [A. V. Chubukov et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett.
90, 077002 (2003)] leads to the conclusion that ferromagnetic quantum critical
point (FQCP) cannot be described by a Stoner model because of a strong
interplay between the paramagnetic fluctuations and the Cooper channel, at
least in two dimensions.Comment: 5 pages, 2 EPS figures, RevTeX
Spontaneous Spin Polarized Currents in Superconductor-Ferromagnetic Metal Heterostructures
We study a simple microscopic model for thin, ferromagnetic, metallic layers
on semi-infinite bulk superconductor. We find that for certain values of the
exchange spliting, on the ferromagnetic side, the ground states of such
structures feature spontaneously induced spin polarized currents. Using a
mean-field theory, which is selfconsistent with respect to the pairing
amplitude , spin polarization and the spontaneous current
, we show that not only there are Andreev bound states in the
ferromagnet but when their energies are near zero they support
spontaneous currents parallel to the ferromagnetic-superconducting interface.
Moreover, we demonstrate that the spin-polarization of these currents depends
sensitively on the band filling.Comment: 4 pages, 5 Postscript figures (included
Pressure-dependence of electron-phonon coupling and the superconducting phase in hcp Fe - a linear response study
A recent experiment by Shimizu et al. has provided evidence of a
superconducting phase in hcp Fe under pressure. To study the
pressure-dependence of this superconducting phase we have calculated the phonon
frequencies and the electron-phonon coupling in hcp Fe as a function of the
lattice parameter, using the linear response (LR) scheme and the full potential
linear muffin-tin orbital (FP-LMTO) method. Calculated phonon spectra and the
Eliashberg functions indicate that conventional s-wave
electron-phonon coupling can definitely account for the appearance of the
superconducting phase in hcp Fe. However, the observed change in the transition
temperature with increasing pressure is far too rapid compared with the
calculated results. For comparison with the linear response results, we have
computed the electron-phonon coupling also by using the rigid muffin-tin (RMT)
approximation. From both the LR and the RMT results it appears that
electron-phonon interaction alone cannot explain the small range of volume over
which superconductivity is observed. It is shown that
ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations as well as scattering from
magnetic impurities (spin-ordered clusters) can account for the observed values
of the transition temperatures but cannot substantially improve the agreeemnt
between the calculated and observed presure/volume range of the superconducting
phase. A simplified treatment of p-wave pairing leads to extremely small ( K) transition temperatures. Thus our calculations seem to rule out
both - and - wave superconductivity in hcp Fe.Comment: 12 pages, submitted to PR
Spin fluctuations in nearly magnetic metals from ab-initio dynamical spin susceptibility calculations:application to Pd and Cr95V5
We describe our theoretical formalism and computational scheme for making
ab-initio calculations of the dynamic paramagnetic spin susceptibilities of
metals and alloys at finite temperatures. Its basis is Time-Dependent Density
Functional Theory within an electronic multiple scattering, imaginary time
Green function formalism. Results receive a natural interpretation in terms of
overdamped oscillator systems making them suitable for incorporation into spin
fluctuation theories. For illustration we apply our method to the nearly
ferromagnetic metal Pd and the nearly antiferromagnetic chromium alloy Cr95V5.
We compare and contrast the spin dynamics of these two metals and in each case
identify those fluctuations with relaxation times much longer than typical
electronic `hopping times'Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures. To appear in Physical Review B (July 2000
Spectral and transport properties of doped Mott-Hubbard systems with incommensurate magnetic order
We present spectral and optical properties of the Hubbard model on a
two-dimensional square lattice using a generalization of dynamical mean-field
theory to magnetic states in finite dimension. The self-energy includes the
effect of spin fluctuations and screening of the Coulomb interaction due to
particle-particle scattering. At half-filling the quasiparticles reduce the
width of the Mott-Hubbard `gap' and have dispersions and spectral weights that
agree remarkably well with quantum Monte Carlo and exact diagonalization
calculations. Away from half-filling we consider incommensurate magnetic order
with a varying local spin direction, and derive the photoemission and optical
spectra. The incommensurate magnetic order leads to a pseudogap which opens at
the Fermi energy and coexists with a large Mott-Hubbard gap. The quasiparticle
states survive in the doped systems, but their dispersion is modified with the
doping and a rigid band picture does not apply. Spectral weight in the optical
conductivity is transferred to lower energies and the Drude weight increases
linearly with increasing doping. We show that incommensurate magnetic order
leads also to mid-gap states in the optical spectra and to decreased scattering
rates in the transport processes, in qualitative agreement with the
experimental observations in doped systems. The gradual disappearence of the
spiral magnetic order and the vanishing pseudogap with increasing temperature
is found to be responsible for the linear resistivity. We discuss the possible
reasons why these results may only partially explain the features observed in
the optical spectra of high temperature superconductors.Comment: 22 pages, 18 figure
The superconducting ferromagnet UCoGe
The correlated metal UCoGe is a weak itinerant ferromagnet with a Curie
temperature T_C = 3 K and a superconductor with a transition temperature T_s =
0.6 K. We review its basic thermal, magnetic - on the macro and microscopic
scale - and transport properties, as well as the response to high pressure. The
data unambiguously show that superconductivity and ferromagnetism coexist below
T_s = 0.6 K and are carried by the same 5f electrons. We present evidence that
UCoGe is a p-wave superconductor and argue that superconductivity is mediated
by critical ferromagnetic spin fluctuations.Comment: 19 pages; review paper; accepted for publication in the Journal of
Low Temperature Physics (Special issue: Quantum Phase Transitions 2010