Charge and spin collective modes in a quasi-one-dimensional model of Sr2RuO4

Suk Bum Chung, S. Raghu, Aharon Kapitulnik, and Steven A. Kivelson
Phys. Rev. B 86, 064525 – Published 27 August 2012

Abstract

Given that Sr2RuO4 is a two-component p-wave superconductor, there exists the possibility of well defined collective modes corresponding to fluctuations of the relative phase and spin orientation of the two components of the order parameter. We demonstrate that at temperatures much below Tc, these modes have energies small compared to the pairing gap scale if the superconductivity arises primarily from the quasi-1D (dxz and dyz) bands, while it is known that their energies become comparable to the pairing gap scale if there is a substantial involvement of the quasi-2D (dxy) band. Therefore the orbital origin of the superconductivity can be determined by measuring the energies of these collective modes.

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  • Received 26 June 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.064525

©2012 American Physical Society

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Suk Bum Chung1, S. Raghu1,2, Aharon Kapitulnik1, and Steven A. Kivelson1

  • 1Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 2Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA

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Vol. 86, Iss. 6 — 1 August 2012

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