Rostunov T, Demler E, Georges A. Spin-wave contribution to the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in triplet superconductors.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006;
96:077002. [PMID:
16606127 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.96.077002]
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Abstract
We discuss collective spin-wave excitations in triplet superconductors with an easy axis anisotropy for the order parameter. Using a microscopic model for interacting electrons, we estimate the frequency of such excitations in Bechgaard salts and ruthenate superconductors to be 1 and 20 GHz, respectively. We introduce an effective bosonic model to describe spin-wave excitations and calculate their contribution to the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate. We find that, in the experimentally relevant regime of temperatures, this mechanism leads to the power law scaling of 1/T1 with temperature. For two- and three-dimensional systems, the scaling exponents are 3 and 5, respectively. We discuss experimental manifestations of the spin-wave mechanism of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation.
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