Theory of optical responses in clean multi-band superconductors

The optical response of a clean momentum-conserved conventional superconductor is known to be forbidden. Here, Ahn and Nagaosa propose three conditions that intrinsic optical excitations can occur in clean multi-band superconductors by satisfying one of the three.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Junyeong Ahn, Naoto Nagaosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21905-x