Resilient Nodeless d-Wave Superconductivity in Monolayer FeSe

Monolayer FeSe exhibits the highest transition temperature among the iron based superconductors and appears to be fully gapped, seemingly consistent with s-wave superconductivity. Here, we develop a theory for the superconductivity based on coupling to fluctuations of checkerboard magnetic order (which has the same translation symmetry as the lattice). The electronic states are described by a symmetry based k·p-like theory and naturally account for the states observed by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We show that a prediction of this theory is that the resultant superconducting state is a fully gapped, nodeless, d-wave state. This state, which would usually have nodes, stays nodeless because, as seen experimentally, the relevant spin-orbit coupling has an energy scale smaller than the superconducting gap.

Quantum oscillations of the metallic triangular-lattice antiferromagnet PdCrO2

We report the electronic and transport properties of the triangular antiferromagnet PdCrO(2) at high magnetic fields up to 33 T, using measurements of the de Haas-van Alphen oscillations and the Hall resistivity. The de Haas-van Alphen oscillations below the magnetic ordering temperature T(N) reveal several two-dimensional Fermi surfaces of smaller size than those found in nonmagnetic PdCoO(2), consistent with the band structure calculations. This evidences Fermi surface reconstruction due to the 120° helical ordering of the localized Cr spins, suggesting significant coupling of the itinerant electrons to the underlying spin texture. This induces the nonlinear Hall resistivity at low temperatures via the magnetic breakdown in the reconstructed Fermi surface. Furthermore, such a coupling leads to the unconventional anomalous Hall effects near T(N) due to the field-induced spin chirality at high magnetic fields.

A first-principles study on the Rashba effect in surface systems

The Rashba effect in several surface systems, Au(111), Au(110), Ag(111), Sb(111) and Si(111)-Bi, is studied by means of first-principles relativistic density-functional calculations. The importance of the asymmetric behavior around the surface atom is emphasized as a crucial factor to determine the magnitude of Rashba spin splitting in addition to the size of the spin-orbit coupling. The Rashba effect at the Brillouin-zone boundary is generally described with time-reversal symmetry. Distinctive features in the spin splitting and spin direction for a two-dimensional hexagonal system are discussed with the use of symmetry in the double group of k.