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Light-induced switching between singlet and triplet superconducting states

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  • Steven Gassner

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Clara S. Weber

    (University of Pennsylvania
    RWTH Aachen and JARA - Fundamentals of Future Information Technology)

  • Martin Claassen

    (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

While the search for topological triplet-pairing superconductivity has remained a challenge, recent developments in optically stabilizing metastable superconducting states suggest a new route to realizing this elusive phase. Here, we devise a testable theory of competing superconducting orders that permits ultrafast switching to an opposite-parity superconducting phase in centrosymmetric crystals with strong spin-orbit coupling. Using both microscopic and phenomenological models, we show that dynamical inversion symmetry breaking with a tailored light pulse can induce odd-parity (spin triplet) order parameter oscillations in a conventional even-parity (spin singlet) superconductor, which when driven strongly can send the system to a competing minimum in its free energy landscape. Our results provide new guiding principles for engineering unconventional electronic phases using light, suggesting a fundamentally non-equilibrium route toward realizing topological superconductivity.

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  • Steven Gassner & Clara S. Weber & Martin Claassen, 2024. "Light-induced switching between singlet and triplet superconducting states," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-45949-x
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45949-x
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