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Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov States in Two-Band Superconductors

Superconductivity 2014-01-21 v3

Abstract

We examine the possible phase diagram in an HH-TT plane for Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) states in a two-band Pauli-limiting superconductor. We here demonstrate that, as a result of the competition of two different modulation length scales, the FFLO phase is divided into two phases by the first-order transition: the Q1Q_1- and Q2Q_2-FFLO phases at the higher and lower fields. The Q2Q_2-FFLO phase is further divided by successive first order transitions into an infinite family of FFLO subphases with rational modulation vectors, forming a {\it devil's staircase structure} for the field dependences of the modulation vector and paramagnetic moment. The critical magnetic field above which the FFLO is stabilized is lower than that in a single-band superconductor. However, the tricritical Lifshitz point LL at TLT_{\rm L} is invariant under two-band parameter changes.

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@article{arxiv.1305.3678,
  title  = {Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov States in Two-Band Superconductors},
  author = {Takeshi Mizushima and Masahiro Takahashi and Kazushige Machida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3678},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures