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Skyrmionic State and Stable Half-Quantum Vortices in Chiral P-Wave Superconductors (with Julien Garaud), Physical Review B (2012)

Observability of half-quantum vortices and skyrmions in p-wave superconductors is an outstanding open question. Under...

 

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Screening Properties and Phase Transitions in Unconventional Plasmas for Ising-Type Quantum Hall States (with Egil Herland, Parsa Bonderson, Victor Gurarie, Chetan Nayak, and Asle Sudbø), Physical Review B (2011)

Utilizing large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations, we investigate an unconventional two-component classical plasma in two dimensions which...

 

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Microscopic Derivation of Two-Component Ginzburg-Landau Model and Conditions of its Applicability in Two-Band Systems (with Mihail Silaev), Physical Review B (2011)

We report a microscopic derivation of two-component Ginzburg-Landau (GL) field theory and the conditions of...

 

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Length Scales, Collective Modes, and Type-1.5 Regimes in Three-Band Superconductors (with Johan Carlstrom and Julien Garaud), Physical Review B (2011)

The recent discovery of iron pnictide superconductors has resulted in a rapidly growing interest in...

 

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Topological Solitons in Three-Band Superconductors with Broken Time Reversal Symmetry (with Julien Garaud and Johan Carlstrom), Physical Review Letters (2011)

We show that three-band superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry allow magnetic flux-carrying stable topological...

 

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Non-pairwise intervortex interaction forces (with Johan Carlstrom and Julien Garaud), Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (2011)

We demonstrate the existence of a new kind of non-pairwise multivortex interaction forces, which are...

 

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Type-1.5 superconductivity in multiband systems: the e ects of interband couplings (with Johan Carlstrom and Martin Speight), Physics Department Faculty Publication Series (2010)

In contrast to single-component superconductors, which are described at the level of Ginzburg- Landau theory...