Upper critical field in noncentrosymmetric superconductors

Details Upper critical field in noncentrosymmetric superconductors Upper critical field in noncentrosymmetric superconductors

2008-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/0805.3338v2

Phys. Rev. B 78, 224520 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

13 REVTeX pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.224520

We calculate the upper critical field in superconductors without inversion symmetry at arbitrary temperatures, in the presence of scalar impurities. Both orbital and spin (paramagnetic) mechanisms of pair breaking are considered. The superconducting phase transition at nonzero field occurs into a helical vortex state, in which the order parameter is modulated along the applied field (in a cubic crystal). The helical state is stable with respect to disorder. However, if the difference between the densities of states in the electron bands split by spin-orbit coupling is neglected, then the order parameter modulation is present only at low temperatures, and only if the system is sufficiently clean and paramagnetically limited. This state resembles the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell state in centrosymmetric superconductors.

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