Superconductivity in three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled semimetals

Abstract

Motivated by the experimental detection of superconductivity in the low-carrier density half-Heusler compound YPtBi, we study the pairing instabilities of three-dimensional strongly spin-orbit coupled semimetals with a quadratic band touching point. In these semimetals the electronic structure at the Fermi energy is described by spin j=3/2 quasiparticles, which are fundamentally different from those in ordinary metals with spin j=1/2. We develop a general approach to analyzing pairing instabilities in j=3/2 materials by decomposing the pair scattering interaction into irreducible channels, projecting them to the Fermi surface and deriving the corresponding Eliashberg theory. Applying our method to a generic density-density interaction in YPtBi we establish the following results: (i) The pairing strength in each channel uniquely encodes the j=3/2 nature of the Fermi surface band structure--a manifestation of the fundamental difference with ordinary metals. In particular, this implies that Anderson's theorem, which addresses the effect of spin-orbit coupling and disorder on pairing states of spin-1/2 electrons, cannot be applied in this case. (ii) The leading pairing instabilities are different for electron and hole doping. This implies that superconductivity depends on carrier type. (iii) In the case of hole doping--relevant to YPtBi, we find two odd-parity channels in close competition with s-wave pairing. One of these two channels is a multicomponent pairing channel, allowing for the possibility of time-reversal symmetry breaking. (iv) In the case of Coulomb interactions mediated by the long-ranged electric polarization of optical phonon modes, a significant coupling strength is generated in spite of the extremely low density of carriers. Furthermore, non-linear response and Fermi liquid corrections can favor non-s-wave pairing and potentially account for the experimentally-observed Tc.

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