Spin triplet superconducting phases in Sr2RuO4 in a magnetic field applied along the c-axis

Journal of the Korean Physical Society - Tập 62 - Trang 1844-1847 - 2013
Shuhei Takamatsu1, Youichi Yanase2
1Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
2Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Tóm tắt

We investigate the spin-triplet superconducting state of Sr2RuO4 in a magnetic field along the c-axis on the basis of the four-component Ginzburg-Landau (GL) model with a weak spin-orbit coupling. We show that the non-unitary superconducting phase is stabilized near the upper critical field owing to a coupling between the chirality and the magnetic field. The vortex lattice structures of this superconducting phase are calculated at temperatures near the superconducting transition temperature T c. Furthermore, we show a schematic of the global phase diagram in terms of the temperature and the magnetic field.

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