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Fulde-Ferrell state in ferromagnetic chiral superconductor with magnetic domain wall
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Motivated by the recent theoretical and experimental progress in the heavy fermion system UCoGe, we study ferromagnetic chiral superconductors in the presence of magnetic domains. Within mean field approximations, it is shown that chiral superconducting domains are naturally induced by the ferromagnetic domains. The domain wall current flows in the opposite direction to the naively expected one as in $^3$He-A phase due to contributions from "unpaired electrons". Consequently, the domain wall current flows in the same direction with that of surface currents when the magnetic domain wall lies parallel to the sample surface, and therefore they contribute to the net current along the whole sample. We find that, due to the non-cancellation between the domain wall current and surface current, a Fulde-Ferrell-like superconducting state can be stabilized in an anisotropic sample for all the temperatures below the superconducting transition temperature.<br />11 pages
- Subjects :
- Physics
Superconductivity
Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Magnetic domain
Condensed matter physics
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
FOS: Physical sciences
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Domain wall (magnetism)
Ferromagnetism
Mean field theory
Phase (matter)
Condensed Matter::Superconductivity
0103 physical sciences
Current (fluid)
010306 general physics
Anisotropy
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9aacf47370df9c253b249f7cef8f2ca0