Instability of Singlet Superconductivity with Respect to the Appearance of a Triplet Component in a Vortex Phase.
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Abstract
We show [1] that a vortex phase in a singlet d(s)-wave 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, is shown to break three important symmetries of an internal superconducting order parameter: spin-rotational, parity [1], and time-reversal [2] ones. As a result, Cooper pairs are characterized by non-zero angular momenta [2] and non-zero spins [1], polarized in a plane, perpendicular to the external magnetic field. The above mentioned effects are expected to be of the order of unity in almost all modern superconductors such as MgB$_{2}$, high-Tc, organic, and some others. [1] A.G. Lebed, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 037002 (2006). [2] Omjyoti Dutta and A.G. Lebed, Nature, submitted (2006).
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Authors
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Andrei Lebed
Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona
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Omjyoti Dutta
Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona