Domain walls and their experimental signatures in s+is superconductors
Abstract
Arguments were recently advanced that hole-doped BaKFeAs exhibits state at certain doping. Spontaneous breaking of time reversal symmetry in state, dictates that it possess domain wall excitations. Here, we discuss what are the experimentally detectable signatures of domain walls in state. We find that in this state the domain walls can have dipole-like magnetic signature (in contrast to the uniform magnetic signature of domain walls superconductors). We propose experiments where quench-induced domain walls can be stabilized by geometric barriers and be observed via their magnetic signature or their influence on the magnetization process, thereby providing an experimental tool to confirm state.
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@article{arxiv.1308.3220,
title = {Domain walls and their experimental signatures in s+is superconductors},
author = {Julien Garaud and Egor Babaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3220},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Replaced with a version in print in Physical Review Letters; Minor changes; 8 pages, 9 figures