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Charged and uncharged vortices in quasiclassical theory

Superconductivity 2018-05-09 v2

Abstract

The charging effect of a superconducting vortex core is very important for transport properties of superconducting vortices. The chiral p-wave superconductor, known as a topological superconductor (SC), has a Majorana fermion in a vortex core and the charging effect has been studied using microscopic Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) theory. According to calculations based on the BdG theory, one type of the vortex is charged as well as the vortex of the s-wave SC, while the other is uncharged. We reproduce this interesting charging effect using an augmented quasiclassical theory in chiral p-wave SCs, by which we can deal with particle-hole asymmetry in the quasiclassical approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1707.01011,
  title  = {Charged and uncharged vortices in quasiclassical theory},
  author = {Yusuke Masaki and Yusuke Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01011},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures