Phase diagram of a surface superconductor in parallel magnetic field
Abstract
Detailed theory of phase diagram of clean 2D surface superconductor in a parallel magnetic field is presented. Regular spin-orbital interaction of the Rashba type is known to produce inhomogeneous superconductive state similar to the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrel (LOFF) state with at high magnetic fields, with . We consider the case of relatively strong Rashba interaction and show that at low temperatures the LOFF-type state is separated from the usual homogeneous state by the first-order phase transition line. At higher temperatures new "helical" state with intervene between uniform BCS state and LOFF-like state. One component of superfluid density tensor vanishes on the second-order transition line between BCS state and helical state. Nonmagnetic impurities suppresses both inhomogeneous states, and eliminate them completely at .
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0304445,
title = {Phase diagram of a surface superconductor in parallel magnetic field},
author = {Ol'ga V. Dimitrova and M. V. Feigel'man},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0304445},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure; v2: as published, minor corrections