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Properties of dirty two-band superconductors with repulsive interband interaction: Normal modes, length scales, vortices, and magnetic response
- Source :
- Physical Review B. 98(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Disorder in two-band superconductors with repulsive interband interaction induces a frustrated competition between the phase-locking preferences of the various potential and kinetic terms. This frustrated interaction can result in the formation of an $s+is$ superconducting state, that breaks the time-reversal symmetry. In this paper we study the normal modes and their associated coherence lengths in such materials. We especially focus on the consequences of the soft modes stemming from the frustration and time-reversal-symmetry breakdown. We find that two-bands superconductors with such impurity-induced frustrated interactions display a rich spectrum of physical properties that are absent in their clean counterparts. It features a mixing of Leggett's and Anderson-Higgs modes, and a soft mode with diverging coherence length at the impurity-induced second order phase transition from $s_{\pm}/s_{++}$ states to the $s+is$ state. Such a soft mode generically results in long-range attractive intervortex forces that can trigger the formation of vortex clusters. We find that, if such clusters are formed, their size and internal flux density have a characteristic temperature dependence that could be probed in muon-spin-rotation experiments. We also comment on the appearance of spontaneous magnetic fields due to spatially varying impurities.<br />Added discussion of spontaneous magnetic fields due to spatially varying impurities; Replaced with a version in print in Phys. Rev. B; 17 pages, 8 figures
- Subjects :
- Phase transition
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multiband superconductivity
FOS: Physical sciences
Frustration
02 engineering and technology
Soft modes
01 natural sciences
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Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
Normal mode
Condensed Matter::Superconductivity
impurities in superconductors
0103 physical sciences
010306 general physics
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Superconductivity
Physics
Condensed matter physics
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Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
superconductivity
vortices in superconductors
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Symmetry (physics)
Coherence length
Magnetic field
Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons
0210 nano-technology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24699950
- Volume :
- 98
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review B
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8eb44e64bb2de875545e27badbca84f0