Quasi-particle spectrum around half-quantum vortices (HQVs) in triplet superconductors

被引:3
作者
Kato, Masaru [1 ,2 ]
Niwa, Yuhei [1 ,2 ]
Maki, Kazumi [3 ]
机构
[1] Osaka Prefecture Univ, Dept Math Sci, 1-1 Gakuencho, Sakai, Osaka 5998531, Japan
[2] JST, CRES, Kawaguchi, Saitama 3320012, Japan
[3] Univ Southern Calif, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
来源
25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS (LT25), PART 5: SUPERCONDUCTIVITY | 2009年 / 150卷
关键词
SR2RUO4; VORTEX;
D O I
10.1088/1742-6596/150/5/052103
中图分类号
O414.1 [热力学];
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摘要
It is shown recently triplet superconductors like Sr2RuO4, UPt3 and PrOs4Sb12 have Majorana fermion, d-soliton and half-quantum vortices (HQVs). The Bogoliubov de Gennes (BdG) equation necessary for the present purpose is derived following Ivanov. For H Pc and d-vector in the ab plane the one of HQVs has a series of bound states including the zero-energy-mode or Majorana fermion while the other has no bound state for a single spin component. We illustrate this for p-wave SC.
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