Vortex states in mesoscopic three-band superconductors
Superconductivity
2014-01-29 v2
Abstract
Using multi-component Ginzburg-Landau simulations, we show a plethora of vortex states possible in mesoscopic three-band superconductors. We find that mesoscopic confinement stabilizes chiral states, with non-trivial phase differences between the band-condensates, as the ground state of the system. As a consequence, we report the broken-symmetry vortex states, the chiral states where vortex cores in different band condensates do not coincide (split-core vortices), as well as fractional vortex states with broken time-reversal symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1308.4981,
title = {Vortex states in mesoscopic three-band superconductors},
author = {San Gillis and Juha Jäykkä and Milorad V. Milošević},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4981},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
v2: minor edits, 12 pages, 21 figures (now with options to direct arXiv to produce proper pdf figures from the original eps figures) v1: 12 pages, 21 figures