Chirality Sensitive Effect on Surface States in Chiral p-Wave Superconductors

• Yokoyama, Takehito

• Iniotakis, Christian

• Tanaka, Yukio

• Sigrist, Manfred

Abstract

We study the local density of states at the surface of a chiral p-wave superconductor in the presence of a weak magnetic field. As a result, the formation of low-energy Andreev bound states is either suppressed or enhanced by an applied magnetic field, depending on its orientation with respect to the chirality of the p-wave superconductor. Similarly, an Abrikosov vortex, which is situated not too far from the surface, leads to a zero-energy peak of the density of states, if its chirality is the same as that of the superconductor, and to a gap structure for the opposite case. We explain the underlying principle of this effect and propose a chirality sensitive test on unconventional superconductors.

Journal

• PHYSICAL REVIEW Lett

  PHYSICAL REVIEW Lett 100 (17), 177002-177002, 2008-05

  American Physical Society

Details

• CRID: 1050001338797990528
• NII Article ID: 120001151496
• HANDLE: 2237/11283
• ISSN: 00319007
• Web Site: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/9501
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
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