Spin-dependent quasiparticle reflection and bound states at interfaces with itinerant antiferromagnets

Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.037005

We present a formulation of the quasiclassical theory of junctions between itinerant antiferromagnets (AF) and s-wave (sSC) and d-wave superconductors (dSC). For the simplest two-sublattice antiferromagnet on a bipartite lattice, we derive Andreev-type equations and show that their solutions lead to a novel channel of quasiparticle reflection. In particular, quasiparticles in a normal metal with energies less than or comparable to the antiferromagnetic gap experience spin-dependent retroreflection at antiferromagnet-normal metal (AF/N) transparent (100) and (110) interfaces. A relative phase difference of pi between up spin and down spin quasiparticle reflection amplitudes is shown to lead to zero-energy interface bound states on AF/sSC interfaces. For an sSC/AF/sSC junction, these bound states are found to be split, due to a finite width of the AF interlayer, and carry the supercurrent. At AF/dSC interfaces we find no zero-energy bound states for both interface orientations we considered, in contrast with the case of (110) impenetrable surface of a dSC.

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