Collective modes and terahertz near-field response of superconductors

Abstract

We theoretically study the low energy electromagnetic response of BCS type superconductors focusing on propagating collective modes that are observable with THz near field optics. The interesting frequency and momentum range is $\omega <2\Delta$ and $q<1/\xi$ where $\Delta$ is the gap and $\xi$ is the coherence length. We show that it is possible to observe the superfluid plasmons, amplitude (Higgs) modes, Bardasis-Schrieffer modes and Carlson-Goldman modes using THz near field technique, although none of these modes couple linearly to far field radiation. Coupling of THz near field radiation to the amplitude mode requires particle-hole symmetry breaking while coupling to the Bardasis-Schrieffer mode does not and is typically stronger. For parameters appropriate to layered superconductors of current interest, the Carlson-Goldman mode appears in the near field reflection coefficient as a weak feature in the sub-THz frequency range. In a system of two superconducting layers with nanometer scale separation, an acoustic phase mode appears as the antisymmetric density fluctuation mode of the system. This mode produces well defined resonance peaks in the near-field THz response and has strong anticrossings with the Bardasis-Schrieffer and amplitude modes, enhancing their response. In a slab consisting of many layers of quasi-two dimensional superconductors, realized for example in samples of high T${}_c$ cuprate compounds, many branches of propagating Josephson plasmon modes are found to couple to the THz near field radiation.

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