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Microscopic description of axisymmetric vortices in $^{3}P_{2}$ superfluids

Superconductivity 2021-07-07 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study quantized vortices in 3P2{}^{3}P_{2} superfluids using a microscopic theory for the first time. The theory is based on the Eilenberger equation to determine the order parameters and the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equation to obtain the eigenenergies and the core magnetization. Within axisymmetric vortex configurations, we find several stable and metastable vortex configurations which depend on the strength of a magnetic field, similar to a vv vortex and oo vortex in 3^3He superfluids. We demonstrate that the oo vortex is the most stable axisymmetric vortex in the presence of a strong magnetic field, and we find two zero-energy Majorana fermion bound states in the oo-vortex core. We show that the profiles of the core magnetization calculated using the BdG equation are drastically different from those calculated using only the order parameter profiles known before.

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@article{arxiv.1908.06215,
  title  = {Microscopic description of axisymmetric vortices in $^{3}P_{2}$ superfluids},
  author = {Yusuke Masaki and Takeshi Mizushima and Muneto Nitta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06215},
  year   = {2021}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures