Local electronic structure of the superconducting interface LaAlO3/SrTiO3

Bin Liu; Xiao Hu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.81.144504

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Local electronic structure of the superconducting interface LaAlO3/SrTiO3

Bin Liu, Xiao Hu

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.144504 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity on the heterointerface LaAlO3/SrTiO3, we theoretically investigate its local electronic structures near an impurity considering the influence of Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (RSOI) originated in the lack of inversion symmetry. We find that local density of states near an impurity exhibits the in-gap resonance peaks due to the quasiparticle scattering on the Fermi surface with the reversal sign of the pairing gap caused by the mixed singlet and RSOI-induced triplet superconducting state. We also analyze the evolutions of density of states and local density of states with the weight of triplet pairing component determined by the strength of RSOI, which will be widely observed in thin films of superconductors with surface or interface-induced RSOI, or various noncentrosymmetric superconductors in terms of point contact tunneling and scanning tunneling microscopy, and thus reveal an admixture of the spin singlet and RSOI-induced triplet superconducting states.

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Formula	Reported Tc (K)	Pressure (GPa)	Type
LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	0.2	Pressure not reported	unknown
SrTiO3 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	0.4	Pressure not reported	unknown