First-order chiral to non-chiral transition in the angular dependence of the upper critical induction of the Scharnberg-Klemm p-wave pair state

    Authors

    J. Phys.-Condes. Matter

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Transp. Eng.

    Keywords

    p-wave superconductivity; chiral pair state; upper critical field; upper; critical induction; UPPER CRITICAL-FIELD; MAGNETIC-FIELD; SR2RUO4; SUPERCONDUCTORS; TEMPERATURE; ANISOTROPY; HE-3; Physics, Condensed Matter

    Abstract

    We calculate the temperature T and angular (.,.) dependencies of the upper critical induction B-c2(theta, phi, T) for parallel-spin superconductors with an axially symmetric p-wave pairing interaction pinned to the lattice and a dominant ellipsoidal Fermi surface (FS). For all FS anisotropies, the chiral Scharnberg-Klemm (SK) state B-c2(theta, phi, T) exceeds that of the chiral Anderson-BrinkmanMorel ( ABM) state and exhibits a kink at theta =theta*(T, phi), indicative of a first-order transition from its chiral, nodal-direction behavior to its non-chiral, antinodal-direction behavior. Applicabilities to Sr2RuO4, UCoGe and the candidate topological superconductor CuxBi(2)Se(3) are discussed.

    Subjects

    J. Zhang; C. Lorscher; Q. Gu;R. A. Klemm

    Volume

    26

    Issue/Number

    25

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    6

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000337348900002

    ISSN

    0953-8984

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