Magnon influence on the superconducting density of states in superconductorferromagnetic-insulator bilayers
arXiv:2307.03954 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.108.214501
Abstract
Superconductorferromagnetic-insulator heterostructures are paradigmatic systems for studying the mutual influence of superconductivity and magnetism via proximity effects. In particular, spin-split superconductivity is realized in such structures. Recent experiments and theories demonstrate a rich variety of transport phenomena occurring in devices based on such heterostructures that suggest direct applications in thermoelectricity, low-dissipative spintronics, radiation detection, and sensing. In this work we investigate the influence of the electron-magnon interaction at the superconductorferromagnetic-insulator interface on the spin-split superconductivity. It is predicted that due to the magnon-mediated electron spin-flip processes the spin-split quasiparticle branches are partially mixed and reconstructed, and the BCS-like spin-split shape of the superconducting density of states, which is typical for superconductors in the effective exchange field, is strongly modified. An odd-frequency superconducting order parameter admixture to the leading singlet order parameter is also found. These findings expand the physical picture of spin-split superconductivity beyond the mean-field description of the ferromagnet exchange field.
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