Session X8: Focus Session: Novel Superconductors VII: Triplet Pairing and Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking
8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Friday, March 9, 2007
Colorado Convention Center Room: Korbel 1C
Sponsoring Unit:
DMP
Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.MAR.X8.4
Abstract: X8.00004 : Broken time-reversal symmetry in a vortex phase of a superconductor under perpendicular magnetic field.
9:00 AM–9:12 AM
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Authors:
Omjyoti Dutta
(Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona)
Andrei Lebed
(Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona)
A vortex phase in a singlet superconductor is absolutely unstable with respect to a generation of a triplet component of a superconducting order parameter. The triplet component, which appears for both attractive and repulsive interactions in a triplet channel, breaks spin-rotational and parity symmetries[1]. Here we show[2] that in a perpendicular magnetic field, in addition to the above mentioned symmetries, the order parameter also breaks time reversal symmetry. As a result, Cooper pairs carry non-zero angular momenta. The above mentioned effects are expected to be of the order of unity in almost all modern superconductors such as high-Tc and organic ones. We suggest experimental studies to discover triplet-singlet mixing phenomenon which characterizes this novel type-IV superconductivity. [1] A. G. Lebed, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037002. [2]O. Dutta and A. G. Lebed, Nature, submitted (2006)
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