Lee Seung Hun, Qian Yuting, Yang Bohm-Jung
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea; Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP), Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea; and Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
Phys Rev Lett. 2024 May 10;132(19):196602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.196602.
We explore the relationship among the magnetic ordering in real space, the resulting spin texture on the Fermi surface, and the related superconducting gap structure in noncollinear antiferromagnetic metals without spin-orbit coupling. Via a perturbative approach, we show that noncollinear magnetic ordering in a metal can generate momentum-dependent spin texture on its Fermi surface, even in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, if the metal has more than three sublattices in its magnetic unit cell. Thus, our theory naturally extends the idea of altermagnetism to noncollinear spin structures. When superconductivity is developed in a magnetic metal, as the gap-opening condition is strongly constrained by the spin texture, the nodal structure of the superconducting state is also enforced by the magnetism-induced spin texture. Taking the noncollinear antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice as a representative example, we demonstrate how the Fermi surface spin texture induced by noncollinear antiferromagnetism naturally leads to odd-parity spin-triplet superconductivity with nontrivial topological properties.
我们研究了在没有自旋轨道耦合的非共线反铁磁金属中,实空间中的磁有序、费米面上产生的自旋纹理以及相关的超导能隙结构之间的关系。通过微扰方法,我们表明,如果金属的磁单胞中有超过三个子晶格,即使在没有自旋轨道耦合的情况下,金属中的非共线磁有序也能在其费米面上产生依赖于动量的自旋纹理。因此,我们的理论自然地将交替磁性的概念扩展到非共线自旋结构。当磁性金属中发展出超导性时,由于能隙打开条件受到自旋纹理的强烈约束,超导态的节点结构也由磁性诱导的自旋纹理所决定。以 kagome 晶格上的非共线反铁磁体为例,我们展示了由非共线反铁磁性诱导的费米面自旋纹理如何自然地导致具有非平凡拓扑性质的奇宇称自旋三重态超导性。