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PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023413
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- Department of Energy [DE-SC0018218]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0018218] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We theoretically study the low-energy electromagnetic response of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-type superconductors focusing on propagating collective modes that are observable with terahertz near-field optics. The interesting frequency and momentum range is omega < 2 Delta and q < 1/xi, where Delta is the gap and xi is the coherence length. We show that it is possible to observe the superfluid plasmons, amplitude (Higgs) modes, Bardasis-Schrieffer modes, and Carlson-Goldman modes using the terahertz near-field technique, although none of these modes couple linearly to far-field radiation. Coupling of terahertz near-field radiation to the amplitude mode requires particle-hole symmetry breaking, while coupling to the Bardasis-Schrieffer mode does not and is typically stronger. For parameters appropriate to layered superconductors of current interest, the Carlson-Goldman mode appears in the near-field reflection coefficient as a weak feature in the subterahertz frequency range. In a system of two superconducting layers with nanometer-scale separation, an acoustic phase mode appears as the antisymmetric density fluctuation mode of the system. This mode produces well-defined resonance peaks in the near-field terahertz response and has strong anticrossings with the Bardasis-Schrieffer and amplitude modes, enhancing their response. In a slab consisting of many layers of quasi-two-dimensional superconductors, realized for example in samples of high-T-c cuprate compounds, many branches of propagating Josephson plasmon modes are found to couple to the terahertz near-field radiation.
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