Magnetic-field-induced gapless state in multiband superconductors

被引:12
作者
Barzykin, Victor [1 ]
机构
[1] Florida State Univ, Natl High Magnet Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL 32310 USA
关键词
Cooper pairs; Fermi surface; magnetic transitions; metamagnetism; FERROMAGNETIC METALS; OVERLAPPING BANDS; EXCHANGE FIELD; COEXISTENCE; OXYPNICTIDES; TEMPERATURE; HEAT;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.134517
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We investigate theoretically the properties of s-wave multiband superconductors in the weak-coupling (BCS) limit in the presence of pair-breaking effects of magnetic field. It is shown that a gapless superconducting state must appear in quasi-two-dimensional superconductors in magnetic fields parallel to the plane, corresponding to a Sarma state induced on one of the Fermi surfaces. The emergence of the state in s-wave multiband superconductors in the absence of anisotropy or spin-orbit interaction is usually accompanied by a zero-temperature first-order metamagnetic phase transition. For anisotropic or non-s-wave multiband superconductors the order of the zero-temperature metamagnetic transition depends on model parameters, and it may take the form of a smooth crossover. The details of the temperature-magnetic-field phase diagram for multiband superconductors are investigated analytically at zero temperature and numerically at a finite temperature. It is shown the zero-temperatures first-order phase transition gives rise to a critical region on the B-T phase diagram. We suggest possible experiments to detect the gapless state.
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