Josephsonic diagnostic of competing orders in quantum critical multiband superconductors

ORAL

Abstract

Motivated by the recent experimentally observed manifestations of the quantum critical point fluctuations in the thermodynamic properties of multiband superconductors, we will present the derivation of a general expression for the Josephson current of various junctions between two superconductors in the phase of superconductivity coexistence with the spin-density-wave. We demonstrate that the critical current peaks at the quantum critical point that separates pure and mixed superconducting phases. We argue that our results are generic and, in particular, can be adopted to explain the recent observations of nonmonotonic dependence of the supercurrent on external pressure in the quantum critical superconductor CeRhIn5.

Presenters

  • Maxim Dzero

    Kent State University, Kent State

Authors

  • Maxim Dzero

    Kent State University, Kent State

  • Alex Levchenko

    University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA