Kondo screening of single magnetic impurity doped type-II Ising superconductors

We theoretically study the Kondo effect in type-II Ising superconductors with a single magnetic impurity. Type-II Ising superconductivity was found in two-dimensional centrosymmetric materials with multiple degen-erate orbitals, such as in few-layer stanene [Falson et al., Science 367, 1454 (2020)] and ultrathin PdTe2 films [Liu et al., Nano Lett. 20, 5728 (2020)]. The type-II Ising spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in these materials generates out-of-plane effective Zeeman fields orienting opposite directions for opposing orbitals, which strongly protects the interorbital superconducting pairing states against in-plane magnetic fields. We show that the SOC-induced band splitting and the chemical potential significantly influence the formation of a localized magnetic moment, with particle-hole asymmetry in the phase boundary between magnetic and nonmagnetic states. The behaviors of spin-induced Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states and low-temperature magnetic susceptibility demonstrate that the SOC suppresses the Kondo screening of the magnetic moment, while the interorbital mixing weakens the SOC at finite momentum, then enhances the Kondo effect. The quantum phase transition between magnetic doublet and Kondo singlet ground states can be tuned through chemical potential in experiments.

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We investigate the Kondo effect in type-II Ising superconductors with a single magnetic impurity. The type-II Ising spin-orbit coupling in these materials generates out-of-plane effective Zeeman fields, protecting interorbital superconducting pairing states against in-plane magnetic fields. The behavior of spin-induced Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states and low-temperature magnetic susceptibility shows that the spin-orbit coupling suppresses the Kondo screening of the magnetic moment.