Superconductivity in disordered locally noncentrosymmetric materials : an application to CeRh2As2

• Autor(a) principal: Möckli, David
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ramires, Aline
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/236815
• topic: Supercondutividade; Diagramas de fase; Campos magnéticos

Layered three-dimensional centrosymmetric crystals can exhibit characteristics of noncentrosymmetric mate rials. This happens when each individual layer alone lacks inversion but, when combined, inversion symmetry is restored; hence the designation locally noncentrosymmertic superconductors (LNCSs). In LNCSs, the effects of impurities and subdominant magnetic field induced pairing channels remain unexplored. Using a minimal model, we examine all pairing channels and show that there is always a subdominant superconducting instability that is favored at high magnetic fields, which can substantially alter the magnetic field–temperature phase diagram. Also, we find that the phase diagram responds to disorder in a nonmonotonic way, which can be subjected to experimental verification. We apply these ideas to the recently unveiled two-phase superconducting phase diagram of CeRh2As2. We identify the two phases as singlet-triplet mixed even- and odd-parity states at low and high-fields, respectively. Furthermore, we predict the presence of two superconducting phases also for in-plane magnetic fields in cleaner samples, since a high-field phase could have been so far hindered by impurity effects.