Induced polarization at a paraelectric/superconducting interface
Abstract
We examine the modified electronic states at the interface between superconducting and ferro(para)-electric heterostructures. We find that electric polarization and superconducting order parameters can be significantly modified due to coupling through linear terms brought about by explicit symmetry breaking at the interface. Using an effective action and a Ginzburg-Landau formalism, we show that an interaction term linear in the electric polarization will modify the superconducting order parameter at the interface. This also produces modulation of a ferroelectric polarization. It is shown that a paraelectric-superconductor interaction will produce an interface-induced ferroelectric polarization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.1395,
title = {Induced polarization at a paraelectric/superconducting interface},
author = {J. T. Haraldsen and S. A. Trugman and A. V. Balatsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1395},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. B