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Vortex state in double transition superconductors
Novel vortex phase and nature of double transition field are investigated by
two-component Ginzburg-Landau theory in a situation where fourfold-twofold
symmetric superconducting double transition occurs. The deformation from 60
degree triangular vortex lattice and a possibility of the vortex sheet
structure are discussed. In the presence of the gradient coupling, the
transition changes to a crossover at finite fields. These characters are
important to identify the multiple superconducting phase in PrOs_4_Sb_12.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Majorana bound state in rotating superfluid 3He-A between parallel plates
A concrete and experimentally feasible example for testing the putative
Majorana zero energy state bound in a vortex is theoretically proposed for a
parallel plate geometry of superfluid He-A phase. We examine the
experimental setup in connection with ongoing rotating cryostat experiments.
The theoretical analysis is based on the well-established Ginzburg--Landau
functional, supplemented by microscopic calculations of the Bogoliubov--de
Gennes equation, both of which allow the precise location of the parameter
regions of the Majorana state to be found in realistic situations.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
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