Superconductors with Topological Order and their Realization in Josephson Junction Arrays
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We will describe a new superconductivity mechanism, proposed by the authors in [1], which is based on a topologically ordered ground state rather than on the usual Landau mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking. Contrary to anyon superconductivity it works in any dimension and it preserves P-and T-invariance. In particular we will discuss the low-energy effective field theory, what would be the Landau-Ginzburg formulation for conventional superconductors.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0703140,
title = {Superconductors with Topological Order and their Realization in Josephson Junction Arrays},
author = {M. C. Diamantini and P. Sodano and C. A. Trugenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0703140},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
invited review, to appear in "Superconductivity Research Advances", Nova Publishers, 32 pages