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Clapping modes in unconventional superconductors

Superconductivity 2015-06-24 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We consider a superconducting state with a mixed symmetry order parameter components, e.g. d+isd+is or d+idd+id' with d=dxyd'= d_{xy}. We argue for the existence of the new orbital magnetization mode which corresponds to the oscillations of relative phase ϕ\phi between two components around an equilibrium value of ϕ=π2\phi = \frac{\pi}{2}. It is similar to the so called ``clapping'' mode in superfluid 3HeA^3He-A. We estimate the frequency of this mode ω0(B,T)\omega_0(B,T) depending on the field and temperature for the specific case of magnetic field induced dd' state. We find that this mode is {\em tunable} with an applied magnetic field with ω0(B,T)B\0\omega_0(B,T) \propto B \0, where \0\0 is the magnitude of the d-wave order parameter. We argue also that similar filed induced clapping mode should be present in an organic p-wave superconductors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009111,
  title  = {Clapping modes in unconventional superconductors},
  author = {A. V. Balatsky and P. Kumar and J. R. Schrieffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009111},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

M2S-HTSC-VI Proceedings, Feb 2000, Houston, TX, USA; 4 pages. Physica C, to be published

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