| Issue |
EPL
Volume 80, Number 3, November 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 37004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/80/37004 | |
| Published online | 28 September 2007 | |
Magnetic-field
induced singlet-triplet phase transition in quasione-dimensional
organic superconductors
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, UMR 8502, CNRS Université Paris-Sud 11 - 91405 Orsay, France
2
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis - Tunisia
Received:
1
August
2007
Accepted:
4
September
2007
We propose a theoretical model of quasione-dimensional superconductors, with attractive electron-electron interactions dominant in the singlet d-wave channel and sub-dominant in the p-wave channel. We discuss, in the mean-field approximation, the effect of a magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the direction of the lowest conductivity. The lowest free energy phase corresponds to a singlet d-wave symmetry in low fields, but to a triplet symmetry in high fields. A first-order singlet-triplet phase transition is expected at moderate applied fields of a few teslas. We propose to ascribe the recent critical field and NMR experimental data, observed in superconducting (TMTSF)2ClO4 to such an effect.
PACS: 74.70.Kn – Organic superconductors / 74.25.Op – Mixed states, critical fields, and surface sheaths / 74.20.Rp – Pairing symmetries (other than s-wave)
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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