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Ground state of the three-dimensional BCS d-wave superconductor

Authors :
Herbut, Igor F.
Boettcher, Igor
Mandal, Subrata
Source :
Phys. Rev. B 100, 104503 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

We determine the mean-field ground state of the three-dimensional rotationally symmetric d-wave ($\ell=2$) superconductor at weak coupling. It is a non-inert state, invariant under the symmetry $C_{2}$ only, which breaks time reversal symmetry almost maximally, and features a high, but again less than maximal average magnetization. The state obtained by minimization of the expanded sixth-order Ginzburg--Landau free energy is found to be an excellent approximation to the true ground state. The coupling to a parasitic s-wave component has only a minuscule quantitative and no qualitative effect on the ground state.<br />Comment: 6 revtex pages; typos corrected, references updated and added, close to published version

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Phys. Rev. B 100, 104503 (2019)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1907.05015
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.104503