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Nuclear Relaxation Rates in Unconventional Multi-band Triplet Superconductors

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Abstract

Motivated by the unconventional multi-band triplet superconductivity in the material $\text{LaNiGa}_2$, we phenomenologically explore the behavior of Nuclear Relaxation Rates in such superconductors. We consider a model of equal spin s-wave triplet pairing between electrons in two bands with a non-unitary time reversal symmetry breaking order parameter. Modifications of this complex-valued order parameter allow one to tune between a single-gap and two-gap system. We show that by varying the hyperfine Hamiltonian and the order parameter, one can obtain the \textbf{presence} or \textbf{absence} of a Hebel-Slichter peak. We apply these results to recent measurements of Nuclear Relaxation Rates in $\text{LaNiGa}_2$.

Publication: An important paper relating to the context of this result:<br>Yundi Quan, Valentin Taufour, and Warren E. Pickett, "Nonsymmorphic band sticking in a topological superconductor," Phys. Rev. B 105, 064517 (2022)

Presenters

  • Rahul Hingorani

    University of California, Davis

Authors

  • Rahul Hingorani

    University of California, Davis

  • Anirudha Menon

    University of California, Davis

  • Phurba Sherpa

    University of California, Davis

  • Valentin Taufour

    UC Davis, University of California, Davis

  • Nicholas J Curro

    University of California, Davis

  • Rajiv Singh

    University of California, Davis