Spin-Orbit Locking as a Protection Mechanism of the Odd-Parity Superconducting State against Disorder
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Michaeli, Karen
Fu, Liang
Date Issued
October 2012
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Michaeli, Karen, and Liang Fu. “Spin-Orbit Locking as a Protection Mechanism of the Odd-Parity Superconducting State Against Disorder.” Physical Review Letters 109.18 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Unconventional superconductors host a plethora of interesting physical phenomena. However, the standard theory of superconductors suggests that unconventional pairing is highly sensitive to disorder, and hence can only be observed in ultraclean systems. We find that due to an emergent chiral symmetry, spin-orbital locking can parametrically suppress pair decoherence introduced by impurity scattering in odd-parity superconductors. Our work demonstrates that disorder is not an obstacle to realize odd-parity superconductivity in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.187003
