Magnetization amplification in interlayer superconductivity

ORAL

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.

*This project was supported by the EPiQS program of the Gordon and Betty Foundation.

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