TY - JOUR
T1 - Impurity-induced antiferromagnetic order in Pauli-limited nodal superconductors
T2 - Application to heavy-fermion CeCoIn5
AU - Martiny, Johannes H.J.
AU - Gastiasoro, Maria N.
AU - Vekhter, I.
AU - Andersen, Brian M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Physical Society.
PY - 2015/12/16
Y1 - 2015/12/16
N2 - We investigate the properties of the coexistence phase of itinerant antiferromagnetism and nodal d-wave superconductivity (Q phase) discovered in heavy-fermion CeCoIn5 under applied magnetic field. We solve the minimal model that includes d-wave superconductivity and underlying magnetic correlations in real space to elucidate the structure of the Q phase in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. We further focus on the role of magnetic impurities, and show that they nucleate the Q phase at lower magnetic fields. Our most crucial finding is that, even at zero applied field, dilute magnetic impurities cooperate via RKKY-like exchange interactions to generate a long-range ordered coexistence state identical to the Q phase. This result is in agreement with recent neutron scattering measurements [S. Raymond et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 83, 013707 (2014)JUPSAU0031-901510.7566/JPSJ.83.013707].
AB - We investigate the properties of the coexistence phase of itinerant antiferromagnetism and nodal d-wave superconductivity (Q phase) discovered in heavy-fermion CeCoIn5 under applied magnetic field. We solve the minimal model that includes d-wave superconductivity and underlying magnetic correlations in real space to elucidate the structure of the Q phase in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. We further focus on the role of magnetic impurities, and show that they nucleate the Q phase at lower magnetic fields. Our most crucial finding is that, even at zero applied field, dilute magnetic impurities cooperate via RKKY-like exchange interactions to generate a long-range ordered coexistence state identical to the Q phase. This result is in agreement with recent neutron scattering measurements [S. Raymond et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 83, 013707 (2014)JUPSAU0031-901510.7566/JPSJ.83.013707].
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.224510
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.224510
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84950336511
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 22
M1 - 224510
ER -