Amplitude Higgs mode and admittance in superconductors with a moving condensate
Abstract
We consider the amplitude (Higgs) mode in a superconductor with a condensate flow (supercurrent). We demonstrate that, in this case, the amplitude mode corresponding to oscillations of the superconducting gap is excited by an external ac electric field already in the first order in , so that , where is the velocity of the condensate. The frequency dependence has a resonance shape with a maximum at . In contrast to the standard situation without the condensate flow, the oscillations of the amplitude contribute to the admittance . We provide a formula for admittance of a superconductor with a supercurrent. The predicted effect opens new ways of experimental investigation of the amplitude mode in superconductors and materials with superconductivity competing with other states.
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@article{arxiv.1607.01373,
title = {Amplitude Higgs mode and admittance in superconductors with a moving condensate},
author = {Andreas Moor and Anatoly F. Volkov and Konstantin B. Efetov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01373},
year = {2017}
}
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accepted for publication in PRL