Anisotropic spin fluctuations in Sr2RuO4: Role of spin-orbit coupling and induced strain

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关键词: TRIPLET SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;    LAYERED PEROVSKITE;    BAND-STRUCTURE;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.94.224507

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

We analyze the spin anisotropy of themagnetic susceptibility of Sr2RuO4 in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and anisotropic strain using quasi-two-dimensional tight-binding parametrization fitted to the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy results. Similar to the previous observations we find the in-plane polarization of the low-q magnetic fluctuations and the out-of-plane polarization of the incommensurate magnetic fluctuation at the nestingwave-vector Q(1) = (2/3 pi, 2/3 pi) but also nearly isotropic fluctuations nearQ(2) = (pi/6, pi/6). Furthermore, one finds that, apart from the high-symmetry direction of the tetragonal Brillouin zone, the magnetic anisotropy is maximal, i. e., chi(xx) not equal chi(yy) not equal chi(zz) reflected in the x polarization of the intraband nestingwave-vectorQ(3) = (pi/2, pi). This is a consequence of the orbital anisotropy of the t(2g) orbitals in momentum space. We also study how the magnetic anisotropy evolves in the presence of the strain and find strong Ising-like ferromagnetic fluctuations near the Lifshitz transition for the xy band.

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