Leggett Modes Accompanying Crystallographic Phase Transitions
arXiv:2107.11332 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.12.011024
Abstract
Higgs and Goldstone modes, well known in high energy physics, have been realized in a number of condensed matter physics contexts, including superconductivity and magnetism. The Goldstone-Higgs concept is also applicable to and gives rise to new insights on structural phase transitions. Here, we show that the Leggett mode, a collective mode observed in multi-band superconductors, also has an analog in crystallographic phase transitions. Such structural Leggett modes can occur in the phase channel as in the original work of Leggett, \href{https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.36.901}{Prog.\ Theor.\ Phys.\ \textbf{36}, 901 (1966)}. That is, they are antiphase Goldstone modes (anti-phasons). In addition, a new collective mode can also occur in the amplitude channel, an out-of phase (antiphase) Higgs mode, that should be observable in multi-band superconductors as well. We illustrate the existence and properties of these structural Leggett modes using the example of the pyrochlore relaxor ferroelectric, CdNbO.
7 pages, 2 figures
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