Kondo screening cloud in a superconductor with mixed s-wave and p-wave pairing states

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ac7213

Abstract We study the Kondo screening of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity coupled to a superconductor, which is fabricated by combination of an s-wave superconductor, a ferromagnet and a semiconductor with Rashba spin—orbit coupling (RSOC). The proximity induced superconducting states include the s-wave and p-wave pairing components with the aids of RSOC, and the ferromagnet induces a Zeeman field which removes the spin degeneracy of the quasiparticles in the triplet states. Thus, the Kondo screening of magnetic impurity involves the orbital degrees of freedom, and is also affected by the Zeeman field. Using the variational method, we calculate the binding energy and the spin—spin correlation between the magnetic impurity and the electrons in the coexisting s-wave and p-wave pairing states. We find that Kondo singlet forms more easily with stronger RSOC, but Zeeman field in general decreases the binding energy. The spin—spin correlation decays fast in the vicinity of the magnetic impurity. Due to the RSOC, the spatial spin—spin correlation becomes highly anisotropic, and the Zeeman field can induce extra asymmetry to the off-diagonal components of the spin—spin correlation. Our study can offer some insights into the studies of extrinsic topological superconductors fabricated from the hybrid structures containing chains of magnetic impurities.

Keywords: Kondo effect Rashba spin—orbit couplings p-wave superconductors Anderson model

Received: 03 April 2022
Revised: 17 May 2022
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PACS:	71.20.Be	(Transition metals and alloys)
	75.20.Hr	(Local moment in compounds and alloys; Kondo effect, valence fluctuations, heavy fermions)
	03.65.Vf	(Phases: geometric; dynamic or topological)
	71.27.+a	(Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions)

Fund: Project supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. LY19A040003).

Corresponding Authors: Jin-Hua Sun
E-mail: sunjinhua@nbu.edu.cn

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Zhen-Zhen Huang(黄真真), Xiong-Tao Peng(彭雄涛), Wan-Sheng Wang(王万胜), and Jin-Hua Sun(孙金华) Kondo screening cloud in a superconductor with mixed s-wave and p-wave pairing states 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 107101

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