Physical Review B, volume 108, issue 5, publication number 054510

Proximity effect in superconductor/antiferromagnet hybrids: Néel triplets and impurity suppression of superconductivity

Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2023-08-14
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ISSN24699950, 24699969, 10980121, 1550235X
Abstract
Two possible physical mechanisms of superconductivity suppression at superconductor/antiferromagnet (S/AF) interfaces, which work even for interfaces with compensated antiferromagnets, were reported. One of them suggests that the N\'eel order of the AF induces rapidly oscillating spin-triplet correlations in the S layer. They are called N\'eel triplets, and they suppress singlet superconductivity. Nonmagnetic disorder destroys this type of triplet correlations. As a result, the critical temperature of the S/AF bilayer grows with impurity strength. The second mechanism, on the contrary, suggests that nonmagnetic impurity scattering suppresses superconductivity in S/AF hybrids. The predictions were made in the framework of two different quasiclassical approaches [G. A. Bobkov et al., Phys. Rev. B 106, 144512 (2022) and E. H. Fyhn et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 076001 (2023)]. Here we suggest the unified theory of the proximity effect in thin-film S/AF structures, which incorporates both pictures as limiting cases, and we study the proximity effect at S/AF interfaces for arbitrary impurity strength, chemical potential, and the value of the N\'eel exchange field.

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Bobkov G. A. et al. Proximity effect in superconductor/antiferromagnet hybrids: Néel triplets and impurity suppression of superconductivity // Physical Review B. 2023. Vol. 108. No. 5. 054510
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Bobkov G. A., Bobkova I., Bobkov A. Proximity effect in superconductor/antiferromagnet hybrids: Néel triplets and impurity suppression of superconductivity // Physical Review B. 2023. Vol. 108. No. 5. 054510
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1103/physrevb.108.054510
UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.108.054510
TI - Proximity effect in superconductor/antiferromagnet hybrids: Néel triplets and impurity suppression of superconductivity
T2 - Physical Review B
AU - Bobkov, G. A.
AU - Bobkova, I. V.
AU - Bobkov, A. M.
PY - 2023
DA - 2023/08/14
PB - American Physical Society (APS)
IS - 5
VL - 108
SN - 2469-9950
SN - 2469-9969
SN - 1098-0121
SN - 1550-235X
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@article{2023_Bobkov,
author = {G. A. Bobkov and I. V. Bobkova and A. M. Bobkov},
title = {Proximity effect in superconductor/antiferromagnet hybrids: Néel triplets and impurity suppression of superconductivity},
journal = {Physical Review B},
year = {2023},
volume = {108},
publisher = {American Physical Society (APS)},
month = {aug},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.108.054510},
number = {5},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.108.054510}
}
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