Resonance in-plane magnetic field effect as a means to reveal the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in layered superconductors
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Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015). 2012, vol. 86, n° 6, p. 064507
American Physical Society
English Abstract
The vector potential of a parallel magnetic field produces a modulation of the interlayer coupling between adjacent superconducting layers. In some cases the period of this modulation can coincide with the period of the ...Read more >
The vector potential of a parallel magnetic field produces a modulation of the interlayer coupling between adjacent superconducting layers. In some cases the period of this modulation can coincide with the period of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) modulation of the superconducting order parameter. Such a resonance condition results in cusps on the temperature and in-plane angular dependencies of the upper critical field Hc2. This effect can open up a possibility to unambiguously evidence a spatially modulated superconducting phase in layered conductors. Remarkably, the proposed signature of the FFLO state is directly based on the main feature of the FFLO state, the spatial modulations of the order parameter.Read less <
English Keywords
Organic superconductors
Multilayers - superlattices - heterostructures
Mixed states - critical fields - and surface sheaths
European Project
Superconductivity in quantum-size regime
ANR Project
/ - ANR-09-BLAN-0146
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