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Boundary effects in two-band superconductors

Superconductivity 2021-04-21 v2

Abstract

We present a microscopic study of the behavior of the order parameters near boundaries of a two-band superconducting material, described by the standard tight-binding Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer model. We find superconducting surface states. The relative difference between bulk and surface critical temperatures is a nontrivial function of the interband coupling strength. For superconductors with weak interband coupling, boundaries induce variations of the gaps with the presence of multiple length scales, despite non-zero interband Josephson coupling.

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@article{arxiv.2011.11032,
  title  = {Boundary effects in two-band superconductors},
  author = {Andrea Benfenati and Albert Samoilenka and Egor Babaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.11032},
  year   = {2021}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures

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