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Effects of surface roughness on the paramagnetic response of small unconventional superconductors
We theoretically study effects of surface roughness on the magnetic response
of small unconventional superconductors by solving the Eilenberger equation for
the quassiclassical Green function and the Maxwell equation for the vector
potential simultaneously and self-consistently. The paramagnetic phase of
spin-singlet -wave superconducting disks is drastically suppressed by the
surface roughness, whereas that of spin-triplet -wave disks is robust even
in the presence of the roughness. Such difference derives from the orbital
symmetry of paramagnetic odd-frequency Cooper pairs appearing at the surface of
disks. The orbital part of the paramagnetic pairing correlation is -wave
symmetry in the -wave disks, whereas it is -wave symmetry in the -wave
ones. Calculating the free-energy, we also confirm that the paramagnetic state
is more stable than the normal state, which indicates a possibility of
detecting the paramagnetic effect in experiments. Indeed our results are
consistent with an experimental finding on high- thin films.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
Quantum Annealing Effect on Entropic Slowing Down in Frustrated Decorated Bond System
We propose that the importance of the quantum annealing procedure to find the
ground state of frustrated decorated bond systems where 'entropic slowing down'
happens due to peculiar density of states. Here, we use the time dependent
Schr\"odinger equation to analyze the real time dynamics of the process. It is
found that the quantum annealing is very efficient comparing to the thermal
annealing for searching the ground state of the systems. We analyze the
mechanism of quantum annealing from a view point of adiabatic process.Comment: 2 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of ICM200
Quantization of Conductance Minimum and Index Theorem
We discuss the minimum value of the zero-bias differential conductance
in a junction consisting of a normal metal and a nodal
superconductor preserving time-reversal symmetry. Using the quasiclassical
Green function method, we show that is quantized at in the limit of strong impurity scatterings in the
normal metal. The integer represents the number of perfect
transmission channels through the junction. An analysis of the chiral symmetry
of the Hamiltonian indicates that corresponds to the
Atiyah-Singer index in mathematics.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Effects of the phase coherence on the local density of states in superconducting proximity structures
We theoretically study the local density of states in superconducting
proximity structure where two superconducting terminals are attached to a side
surface of a normal-metal wire. Using the quasiclassical Green's function
method, the energy spectrum is obtained for both of spin-singlet -wave and
spin-triplet -wave junctions. In both of the cases, the decay length of the
proximity effect at the zero temperature is limited by a depairing effect due
to inelastic scatterings. In addition to the depairing effect, in -wave
junctions, the decay length depends sensitively on the transparency at the
junction interfaces, which is a unique property to odd-parity superconductors
where the anomalous proximity effect occurs.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figure
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