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Charge-$2e$ Skyrmion condensate in a hidden order state

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-02-14 v3 Superconductivity

Abstract

A higher angular momentum (=2\ell =2) dd-density wave, a mixed triplet and a singlet, interestingly, admits skyrmionic textures. The Skyrmions carry charge 2e2e and can condense into a spin-singlet s-wave superconducting state. In addition, a charge current can be induced by a time-dependent inhomogeneous spin texture, leading to quantized charge pumping. The quantum phase transition between this mixed triplet dd-density wave and skyrmionic superconducting condensate likely leads to deconfined quantum critical points. We suggest connections of this exotic state to electronic materials that are strongly correlated, such as the heavy fermion URu2Si2\mathrm{URu_{2}Si_{2}}. At the very least, we provide a concrete example in which topological order and broken symmetry are intertwined, which can give rise to non-BCS superconductivity.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0034,
  title  = {Charge-$2e$ Skyrmion condensate in a hidden order state},
  author = {Chen-Hsuan Hsu and Sudip Chakravarty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0034},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

11 pages, added a new appendix for the derivation of the non-linear sigma model