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Condensed Matter > Strongly Correlated Electrons

Title: Spin-orbit enabled unconventional Stoner magnetism

Abstract: The Stoner instability remains a cornerstone for understanding metallic ferromagnets. This instability captures the interplay of Coulomb repulsion, Pauli exclusion, and two-fold fermionic spin degeneracy. In materials with spin-orbit coupling, this fermionic spin is generalized to a two-fold degenerate pseudospin which is typically believed to have symmetry properties as spin. Here we identify a distinct symmetry of this pseudospin that forbids it to couple to a Zeeman field. This `spinless' property is required to exist in five non-symmorphic space groups and has non-trivial implications for superconductivity and magnetism. With Coulomb repulsion, Fermi surfaces composed primarily of this spinless pseudospin feature give rise to Stoner instabilities into magnetic states that are qualitatively different than ferromagnets. These spinless-pseudospin ferromagnets break time-reversal symmetry, have a vanishing magnetization, are non-collinear, and exhibit altermagnetic-like energy band spin-splittings. In superconductors, for all pairing symmetries and field orientations, this spinless pseudospin extinguishes paramagnetic limiting. We discuss applications to superconducting UCoGe and magnetic NiS$_{2-x}$Se$_x$.
Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
Cite as: arXiv:2310.00838 [cond-mat.str-el]
  (or arXiv:2310.00838v2 [cond-mat.str-el] for this version)

Submission history

From: Yue Yu [view email]
[v1] Mon, 2 Oct 2023 01:24:13 GMT (2654kb,D)
[v2] Fri, 1 Mar 2024 00:36:19 GMT (3209kb,D)

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