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Domain walls in chiral p-wave superconductors: Quasiparticle spectrum and dynamics

Superconductivity 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

We calculate microscopically the viscous friction coefficient and the effective mass of domain walls separating regions of opposite chirality in p-wave superconductors with k_x\pm ik_y order parameter. The domain wall viscosity and inertia are determined by the transitions between different Bogoliubov quasiparticle states induced by the domain wall motion. As a by-product, we present a detailed analysis of the quasiparticle spectrum, both bound and scattering, in the presence of a general domain wall with an arbitrary phase difference between the domains.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6093,
  title  = {Domain walls in chiral p-wave superconductors: Quasiparticle spectrum and dynamics},
  author = {K. V. Samokhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6093},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure