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Magnetization amplification in interlayer superconductivity

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Abstract

A recent experiment on the bulk compound 4Hb-TaS$_2$ reveals an unusual time-reversal-symmetry-breaking superconducting state that possesses a magnetic memory not manifest in the normal state [1]. Here we provide a possible mechanism for this observation by studying the magnetic and electronic properties of 4Hb-TaS$_2$. We discuss the criterion for a vanishingly small magnetization in the normal state in terms of the spin and orbital magnetizations. Based on 4Hb-TaS$_2$'s centrosymmetry and Fermi surface structure, we propose a simple mechanism that gives rise to the experimentally observed magnetic memory in the 4Hb-TaS$_2$ superconducting state: ferromagnetism mediated interlayer superconductivity that leads to amplified magnetization in the superconducting state. We discuss how this superconducting state can be probed experimentally in terms of spin polarized superconducting vortices.

Publication: [1] Persky, Eylon, et al. "Magnetic memory and spontaneous vortices in a van der Waals superconductor." Nature 607.7920 (2022): 692-696.

Presenters

  • Chunxiao Liu

    University of California, Berkeley

Authors

  • Chunxiao Liu

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Shubhayu Chatterjee

    UC Berkeley

  • Thomas Scaffidi

    University of California, Irvine

  • Erez Berg

    Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Ehud Altman

    University of California, Berkeley