Superconductivity in disordered locally noncentrosymmetric materials: An application to CeRh2As2
David Möckli, Aline Ramires
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.134517 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Layered three-dimensional centrosymmetric crystals can exhibit characteristics of noncentrosymmetric materials. 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.
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| Formula | Reported Tc (K) | Pressure (GPa) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| CeRh2As2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula. | 0.26 | Pressure not reported | unknown |
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