Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2000-11-24
Phys. Rev. B 63, 212502 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
4 pages, 5 figures, RevTex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.63.212502
A boundary between two d-wave superconductors or an s-wave and a d-wave superconductor generally breaks time-reversal symmetry and can generate spontaneous currents due to proximity effect. On the other hand, surfaces and interfaces in d-wave superconductors can produce localized current-carrying states by supporting the T-breaking combination of dominant and subdominant order parameters. We investigate spontaneous currents in the presence of both mechanisms and show that at low temperature, counter-intuitively, the subdominant coupling decreases the amplitude of the spontaneous current due to proximity effect. Superscreening of spontaneous currents is demonstrated to be present in any d-d (but not s-d) junction and surface with d+id' order parameter symmetry. We show that this supercreening is the result of contributions from the local magnetic moment of the condensate to the spontaneous current.
Amin M. H. S.
Omelyanchouk A. N.
Zagoskin Alexandre M.
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