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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 89, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.020509
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Funding
- NSF [DMR-0955822, DMR-1120296]
- Swiss Society of Friends of the Weizmann Institute of Science
- DFG-FOR [1458/2]
- European Research Council [ERC-StG-2013-Thomale-336012]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0955822] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23540437] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Recent muon spin-rotation (mu SR) measurements on SrPtAs revealed time-reversal-symmetry breaking with the onset of superconductivity [Biswas et al., Phys. Rev. B 87, 180503(R) (2013)], suggesting an unconventional superconducting state. We investigate this possibility via the functional renormalization group and find a chiral (d + id)-wave order parameter favored by the multiband fermiology and hexagonal symmetry of SrPtAs. This (d + id)-wave state exhibits significant gap anisotropies as well as gap differences on the different bands, but only has point nodes on one of the bands at the Brillouin zone corners. We study the topological characteristics of this superconducting phase, which features Majorana-Weyl nodes in the bulk, protected surface states, and an associated thermal Hall response. The lack of extended nodes and the spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry of the (d + id)-wave state are in agreement with the mu SR experiments. Our theoretical findings, together with the experimental evidence, thus suggest that SrPtAs is an example of chiral d-wave pairing and a Weyl superconductor.
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