Enhanced anti-ferromagnetic exchange between magnetic impurities in a superconducting host
arXiv:1309.2633 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.087202
Abstract
It is generally believed that superconductivity only weakly affects the indirect exchange between magnetic impurities. If the distance r between impurities is smaller than than the superconducting coherence length (r < ξ), this exchange is thought to be dominated by RKKY interactions, identical to the those in a normal metallic host. This perception is based upon a perturbative treatment of the exchange interaction. Here, we provide a non-perturbative analysis and demonstrate that the presence of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bound states induces a strong 1/r^2 anti-ferromagnetic interaction that can dominate over conventional RKKY even at distances significantly smaller than the coherence length. Experimental signatures, implications and applications are discussed.
9 pages, 3 figures
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