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Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition transport in spin-triplet superconductor

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Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition transport in spin-triplet superconductor
Author(s)
Suk Bum Chung; Kim, S.K.
Publication Date
2022-01
Journal
SciPost Physics Core, v.5, no.1
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Abstract
As the spin-triplet superconductivity arises from the condensation of spinful Cooper pairs, its full characterization requires not only charge ordering, but also spin ordering. For a two-dimensional (2D) easy-plane spin-triplet superconductor, this naïvely seems to suggest the possibility of two distinct Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transitions, one in the charge sector and the other in the spin sector. However, it has been recognized that there are actually three possible BKT transitions, involving the deconfinement of, respectively, the conventional vortices, the merons and the half-quantum vortices with vorticity in both the charge and the spin current. By considering equal-spin-pairing spin-triplet superconductors with bulk spin degeneracy, we show how all the transitions can be characterized by the relation between the voltage drop and the spin-polarized current bias. This study reveals that, due to the hitherto unexamined transport of half-quantum vortices, there is an upper bound on the spin supercurrent in a quasi-long range ordered spin-triplet superconductor, which provides a means for half-quantum vortex detection via transport measurements and deeper understanding of fluctuation effects in superconductor-based spintronic devices. Copyright S. B. Chung and S. K. Kim.
URI
https://pr.ibs.re.kr/handle/8788114/12145
DOI
10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.5.1.003
ISSN
2666-9366
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Center for Correlated Electron Systems(강상관계 물질 연구단) > 1. Journal Papers (저널논문)
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