Title
Disorder-robust p -wave pairing with odd-frequency dependence in normal metal-conventional superconductor junctions
Date Issued
01 September 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Löthman T.
Triola C.
Black-Schaffer A.M.
Uppsala University
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
We investigate the induced superconducting pair correlations in junctions between a conventional spin-singlet s-wave superconductor and a disordered normal metal. Decomposing the pair amplitude based on its symmetries in the time domain, we demonstrate that the odd-time, or equivalently odd-frequency, spin-singlet p-wave correlations are both significant in size and entirely robust against random nonmagnetic disorder. We find that these odd-frequency correlations can even be generated by disorder. Our results show that anisotropic odd-frequency pairing represent an important fraction of the proximity-induced correlations in disordered superconducting hybrid structures.
Volume
104
Issue
9
Number
094503
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85114520048
Source
Physical Review B
ISSN of the container
24699950
Sponsor(s)
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme - H2020 Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse We thank A. Balatsky, D. Chakraborty, and T. Löfwander for useful discussions. We acknowledge financial support from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet Grant No. 2018-03488), the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC-2017-StG-757553), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation through the Wallenberg Academy Fellows program and the EU-COST Action CA-16218 Nanocohybri.
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