Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov States in Two-Band Superconductors
Abstract
We examine the possible phase diagram in an - 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 - and -FFLO phases at the higher and lower fields. The -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 at 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