Vortex in Chiral Superconducting State
Abstract
We have investigated the vortex in chiral superconductors, especially in p-wave case. In chiral superconductors the Cooper pair has orbital angular momentum hence U(1), parity (P) and time reversal symmetry (T) are broken simultaneously. We have found that the vortex has fractional charge and fractional angular momentum which comes from P- and T-violation. The fractionalization of the angular momentum suggests that the vortex could be anyon which obeys the fractional statistics. We have also pointed out that the electric field is induced near the vortex core and non-trivial electromagnetic phenomena are expected to occur.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911082,
title = {Vortex in Chiral Superconducting State},
author = {J. Goryo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911082},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, a minor correction, to appear in the proceedings of "The International Conference on Recent Progress in Many Body Theories X", September 10-15, 1999 Seattle, Washington, U.S.A