Spontaneous generation of fractional vortex-Antivortex pairs at single edges of high-Tc superconductors
Paper in proceeding, 2018

Unconventional d-wave superconductors with pair-breaking edges are predicted to have ground states with spontaneously broken time-reversal and translational symmetries. We use the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity to demonstrate that such phases can exist at any single pair-breaking facet. This implies that a greater variety of systems, not necessarily mesoscopic in size, should be unstable to such symmetry breaking. The density of states averaged over the facet displays a broad peak centered at zero energy, which is consistent with experimental findings of a broad zero-bias conductance peak with a temperature-independent width at low temperatures.

Author

Patric Holmvall

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Applied Quantum Physics

Tomas Löfwander

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Applied Quantum Physics

Mikael Fogelström

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2)

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

17426588 (ISSN) 17426596 (eISSN)

Vol. 969 1 012037

28th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, LT 2018
Gothenburg, Sweden,

Subject Categories

Other Physics Topics

Theoretical Chemistry

Condensed Matter Physics

DOI

10.1088/1742-6596/969/1/012037

More information

Latest update

11/11/2019