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Unpublished Paper
Time Reversal Symmetry Breakdown in Normal and Superconducting States in Frustrated Three-Band Systems
Physical Review B (2013)
  • Troels Arnfred Bojesen
  • Egor Babaev, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Asle Sudbo
Abstract
We discuss the phase diagram and phase transitions in U(1)×Z2 three-band superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry. We find that beyond mean-field approximation and for sufficiently strong frustration of interband interactions there appears an unusual metallic state precursory to a superconducting phase transition. In that state, the system is not superconducting. Nonetheless, it features a spontaneously broken Z2 time reversal symmetry. By contrast, for weak frustration of interband coupling the energy of a domain wall between different Z2 states is low and thus fluctuations restore broken time reversal symmetry in the superconducting state at low temperatures.
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Publication Date
2013
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Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.220511
Citation Information
Troels Arnfred Bojesen, Egor Babaev and Asle Sudbo. "Time Reversal Symmetry Breakdown in Normal and Superconducting States in Frustrated Three-Band Systems" Physical Review B (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/egor_babaev/43/