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Superconductivity in non-centrosymmetric LaNiC2

Superconductivity 2014-02-20 v1

Abstract

We present a discussion of superconductivity in non-centrosymmetric superconductors with spin-orbit coupling. A general expression for the quasiparticle excitation energy is derived. The superconducting states for the point group C2v are classified by symmetry in the limit of weak spin-orbit coupling. A non-unitary triplet pairing gap function can account for observations of broken time-reversal symmetry and nodes in the superconducting state of LaNiC2; however such a gap function also has a gapless branch and requires vanishing spin-orbit coupling.

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@article{arxiv.1310.4523,
  title  = {Superconductivity in non-centrosymmetric LaNiC2},
  author = {Soumya P. Mukherjee and Stephanie H. Curnoe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4523},
  year   = {2014}
}

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