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In his seminal work published in Acta Physica Sinica in 1965, Yu Lu pointed out that the superconducting gap exhibits weak modulations near the pair-breaking magnetic impurity in a superconductor. In the past ten year, a series high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy works reported weak superconducting gap modulations in certain superconductors and explained these phenomena as pair density waves. In line with Yu Lu’s discovery, Lee D H et al. pointed out that in many cases, the interference effect of pair-breaking scattering can also lead to superconducting gap modulations in space. We will discuss the distinction and unification of these two kinds of mechanisms, as well as their relevance to recent experimental observations.
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Keywords:
- superconductivity /
- pair density waves /
- scanning tunneling microscopy
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图 1 配对密度波(a)与拆对杂质散射(b)造成的超导能隙振荡
Figure 1. Superconducting gap modulations induced by pair density waves (a) and pair-breaking scatterings (b).
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[1] Bardeen J, Cooper L N, Schrieffer J R 1957 Phys. Rev. 108 1175
Google Scholar
[2] Fulde P, Ferrell R A 1964 Phys. Rev. 135 A550
Google Scholar
[3] Larkin A I, Ovchinnikov Y N 1965 Sov. Phys. JETP 20 762
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[10] Aishwarya A, May-Mann J, Raghavan A, Nie L M, Romanelli M, Ran S, Saha S R, Paglione J, Butch N P, Fradkin E, Madhavan V 2023 Nature 618 928
Google Scholar
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Yu L 1965 Acta Phys. Sin. 21 75
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