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Modification of Born impurity scattering near the surface of d-wave superconductors and influence of external magnetic field
We study the influence of Born impurity scattering on the zero-energy Andreev
bound states near the surface of a d-wave superconductor with and without an
externally applied magnetic field. Without an external magnetic field we show
that the effect of Born impurity scattering is stronger at the surface than in
the bulk. In the presence of an external magnetic field the splitting of the
zero-energy Andreev bound states is shown to have a nonmonotonous temperature
dependence. Born impurity scattering does not wash out the peak splitting, but
instead the peak splitting is shown to be quite robust against impurities. We
also show that a nonzero gap renormalization appears near the surface.Comment: 9 pages, 17 figures; minor changes; new figure 11; accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev.
Spectral properties of a partially spin-polarized one-dimensional Hubbard/Luttinger superfluid
We calculate the excitation spectra of a spin-polarized Hubbard chain away
from half-filling, using a high-precision momentum-resolved time-dependent
Density Matrix Renormalization Group method. Focusing on the U<0 case, we
present in some detail the single-fermion, pair, density and spin spectra, and
discuss how spin-charge separation is altered for this system. The pair spectra
show a quasi-condensate at a nonzero momentum proportional to the polarization,
as expected for this Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov-like superfluid.Comment: 4 pages, 3 low resolution color fig
Finite temperature phase diagram of a polarized Fermi gas in an optical lattice
We present phase diagrams for a polarized Fermi gas in an optical lattice as
a function of temperature, polarization, and lattice filling factor. We
consider the Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO), Sarma or breached pair
(BP), and BCS phases, and the normal state and phase separation. We show that
the FFLO phase appears in a considerable portion of the phase diagram. The
diagrams have two critical points of different nature. We show how various
phases leave clear signatures to momentum distributions of the atoms which can
be observed after time of flight expansion.Comment: Journal versio
Pairing of a trapped resonantly-interacting fermion mixture with unequal spin populations
We consider the phase separation of a trapped atomic mixture of fermions with
unequal spin populations near a Feshbach resonance. In particular, we determine
the density profile of the two spin states and compare with the recent
experiments of Partridge et al. (cond-mat/0511752). Overall we find quite good
agreement. We identify the remaining discrepancies and pose them as open
problems.Comment: 4 figures, 4+ pages, revtex
Influence of high magnetic fields on superconducting transition of one-dimensional Nb and MoGe nanowires
The effects of strong magnetic field on superconducting Nb and MoGe nanowires
with diameter nm have been studied. We have found that the
Langer-Ambegaokar-McCumber-Halperin (LAMH) theory of thermally activated phase
slips is applicable in a wide range of magnetic fields and describes well the
temperature dependence of the wire resistance, over eleven orders of magnitude.
The field dependence of the critical temperature, , extracted from the
LAMH fits is in good quantitative agreement with the theory of pair-breaking
perturbations that takes into account both spin and orbital contributions. The
extracted spin-orbit scattering time agrees with an estimate , where is the elastic scattering time and
is the atomic number.Comment: accepted for publication in Physical Review Letter
Magneto-elastic quantum fluctuations and phase transitions in the iron superconductors
We examine the relevance of magneto-elastic coupling to describe the complex
magnetic and structural behaviour of the different classes of the iron
superconductors. We model the system as a two-dimensional metal whose magnetic
excitations interact with the distortions of the underlying square lattice.
Going beyond mean field we find that quantum fluctuation effects can explain
two unusual features of these materials that have attracted considerable
attention. First, why iron telluride orders magnetically at a non-nesting
wave-vector and not at the nesting wave-vector as
in the iron arsenides, even though the nominal band structures of both these
systems are similar. And second, why the magnetic transition in the
iron arsenides is often preceded by an orthorhombic structural transition.
These are robust properties of the model, independent of microscopic details,
and they emphasize the importance of the magneto-elastic interaction.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; minor change
Profiles of near-resonant population-imbalanced trapped Fermi gases
We investigate the density profiles of a partially polarized trapped Fermi
gas in the BCS-BEC crossover region using mean field theory within the local
density approximation. Within this approximation the gas is phase separated
into concentric shells. We describe how the structure of these shells depends
upon the polarization and the interaction strength. A Comparison with
experiments yields insight into the possibility of a polarized superfluid
phase.Comment: 4 pages, 5 Figures, Published versio
Neutrality of a magnetized two-flavor quark superconductor
We investigate the effect of electric and color charge neutrality on the
two-flavor color superconducting (2SC) phase of cold and dense quark matter in
presence of constant external magnetic fields and at moderate baryon densities.
Within the framework of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model, we study the
inter-dependent evolution of the quark's BCS gap and constituent mass with
increasing density and magnetic field. While confirming previous results
derived for the highly magnetized 2SC phase with color neutrality alone, we
obtain new results as a consequence of imposing charge neutrality. In the
charge neutral gapless 2SC phase (g2SC), a large magnetic field drives the
color superconducting phase transition to a crossover, while the chiral phase
transition is first order. At larger diquark-to-scalar coupling ratio
, where the 2SC phase is preferred, we see hints of the
Clogston-Chandrasekhar limit at a very large value of the magnetic field
(G), but this limit is strongly affected by Shubnikov de
Haas-van Alphen oscillations of the gap, indicating the transition to a
domain-like state.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, Matches with the published versio
Local density of states at polygonal boundaries of d-wave superconductors
Besides the well-known existence of Andreev bound states, the zero-energy
local density of states at the boundary of a d-wave superconductor strongly
depends on the boundary geometry itself. In this work, we examine the influence
of both a simple wedge-shaped boundary geometry and a more complicated
polygonal or faceted boundary structure on the local density of states. For a
wedge-shaped boundary geometry, we find oscillations of the zero-energy density
of states in the corner of the wedge, depending on the opening angle of the
wedge. Furthermore, we study the influence of a single Abrikosov vortex
situated near a boundary, which is of either macroscopic or microscopic
roughness.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev.
Transport in a Dissipative Luttinger Liquid
We study theoretically the transport through a single impurity in a
one-channel Luttinger liquid coupled to a dissipative (ohmic) bath . For
non-zero dissipation the weak link is always a relevant perturbation
which suppresses transport strongly. At zero temperature the current voltage
relation of the link is where and
denotes the compressibility. At non-zero temperature the linear
conductance is proportional to . The decay of
Friedel oscillation saturates for distance larger than
from the impurity.Comment: 4 page
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