Symmetry of superconducting pairing in non-pseudospin electron bands

K. V. Samokhin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.054501

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Symmetry of superconducting pairing in non-pseudospin electron bands

K. V. Samokhin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.054501 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We develop the symmetry classification of superconducting gap functions in electron bands that do not transform under the crystal point-group operations like the pure spin-1/2 states. The Bloch state bases in twofold degenerate bands with spin-orbit coupling are defined across the Brillouin zone in a way which satisfies the symmetry and continuity requirements. These bases are used to construct general multiband pairing Hamiltonians in centrosymmetric crystals. Focusing on single band pairing, four exceptional cases are identified in which the triplet gap function does not transform under the point-group operations as a pseudovector, with a significant impact on the nodal structure.