Vortices with magnetic field inversion in noncentrosymmetric superconductors

Garaud, Julien; Chernodub, Maxim N.; Kharzeev, Dmitri E.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.184516

Vortices with magnetic field inversion in noncentrosymmetric superconductors

Journal Article · Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.184516· OSTI ID:1737439

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Univ. de Tours (France)
Univ. de Tours (France); Far Eastern Federal Univ. Vladivostok (Russia)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). RIKEN Research Center; Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Loire Valley Inst. for Advanced Sciences (France)

Superconducting materials with noncentrosymmetric lattices lacking space inversion symmetry exhibit a variety of interesting parity-breaking phenomena, including the magneto-electric effect, spin-polarized currents, helical states, and the unusual Josephson effect. In this paper, we demonstrate, within a Ginzburg-Landau framework describing noncentrosymmetric superconductors with O point group symmetry, that vortices can exhibit an inversion of the magnetic field at a certain distance from the vortex core. In stark contrast to conventional superconducting vortices, the magnetic-field reversal in the parity-broken superconductor leads to non-monotonic intervortex forces, and, as a consequence, to the exotic properties of the vortex matter such as the formation of vortex bound states, vortex clusters, and the appearance of metastable vortex/anti-vortex bound states.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook University, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-98CH10886; FG02-88ER40388; SC0012704; SC0017662

OSTI ID:: 1737439

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2280526

Report Number(s):: BNL--220726-2020--JAAM

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Journal Name: Physical Review. B Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 102; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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