Josephson effect between a two-band superconductor with the s++ or s+- pairing symmetry and a conventional s-wave superconductor

Details Josephson effect between a two-band superconductor with the s++ or s+- pairing symmetry and a conventional s-wave superconductor Josephson effect between a two-band superconductor with the s++ or s+- pairing symmetry and a conventional s-wave superconductor

2012-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/1204.0538v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

14 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

In this work, we investigate the Josephson effect between a two-band superconductor either with the $s++$ (two energy gaps have the same sign and are fully gapped) pairing symmetry or $s\pm$ (two energy gaps have $\pi$ phase difference and are fully gapped) pairing symmetry and a conventional s-wave superconductors. The ground state, critical current, plasma modes, flux flow dynamics, and response to external ac electric field, possible soliton solutions are investigated. For junctions with the charge neutrality breaking, we find a new plasma mode for junctions, which gives rise to new resonance peaks in the Josephson flux flow region. Because of the frustrated interaction in junctions with $s\pm$ pairing symmetry, time-reversal-symmetry (TRS) can be broken if the frustration is optimized. In the TRS broken (TRSB) state, there is a non-trivial phase difference between the two Josephson tunnelling channels, which results in a non-trivial interference. Furthermore, we find a novel massless plasma mode at the TRSB transition for junctions with the charge neutrality breaking. In the TRSB state, a spontaneous magnetic flux appears where there is a spatial inhomogeneity in the Josephson coupling, thus provides a possible smoking-gun evidence for the underlying pairing symmetry.

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