Cooper pairs with broken time-reversal, parity, and spin-rotational symmetries in singlet type-II superconductors
Abstract
We show that singlet superconductivity in the Abrikosov vortex phase is absolutely unstable with respect to the appearance of a chiral triplet component of a superconducting order parameter. This chiral component px+ipy breaks time-reversal, parity, and spin-rotational symmetries of the internal order parameter responsible for a relative motion of two electrons in the Cooper pair. We demonstrate that the symmetry-breaking Pauli paramagnetic effects can be tuned by a magnetic-field strength and direction and can be made of the order of unity in organic and high-temperature layered superconductors.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0805.1749
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvB..78v4504D
- Keywords:
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- 74.20.Rp;
- 74.20.Mn;
- 74.72.-h;
- Pairing symmetries;
- Nonconventional mechanisms;
- Cuprate superconductors;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- Submitted to Physical Review Letters on May 9th 2008