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Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces due to out-of-plane magnetic fields in monolayer superconducting NbSe$_2$

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Abstract

We use a low-energy model to investigate the effect of an out-of-plane magnetic field on the superconducting properties of monolayer NbSe$_2$. We find that, even when the singlet-channel interactions dominate, such that the zero-field superconducting state is fully gapped, there is a threshold Zeeman field beyond which the quasiparticle spectrum is no longer fully gapped, giving rise to Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces. We establish this by self-consistently solving the gap equations for mixed singlet and triplet pairing on the $\Gamma$ pocket, in the presence of both Ising spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field. We find that the resulting evolution of the density of states with magnetic field qualitatively agrees with the scanning tunneling microscopy data in this material.

Presenters

  • Saumitran Kasturirangan

    University of Minnesota

Authors

  • Saumitran Kasturirangan

    University of Minnesota

  • Guannan Chen

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Somesh C Ganguli

    Aalto University

  • Nandini Trivedi

    Ohio State University

  • Rafael M Fernandes

    University of Minnesota

  • Vidya Madhavan

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

  • Fiona J Burnell

    University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Twin Cities