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EPL
Volume 87, Number 1, July 2009
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| Article Number | 17003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/87/17003 | |
| Published online | 17 July 2009 | |
Broken time-reversal symmetry in Josephson junction involving two-band superconductors
1
Department of Physics, Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology - Kawloon, Hong Kong, PRC
2
Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo - 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
3
Cross Correlated Materials Research Group (CMRG), ASI, RIKEN - Wako 351-0198, Japan
Received:
2
April
2009
Accepted:
17
June
2009
A novel time-reversal symmetry breaking state is found theoretically in the Josephson junction between a two-gap superconductor and a conventional s-wave superconductor. This occurs as a result of frustration between the three order parameters analogous to two antiferromagnetically coupled XY-spins put under a magnetic field. This leads to formation of interface states with energies inside the superconducting gap and modified flux quantization condition for a ring composed of the two types of superconductors.
PACS: 74.20.De – Phenomenological theories (two-fluid, Ginzburg-Landau, etc.) / 74.20.-z – Theories and models of superconducting state / 74.45.+c – Proximity effects; Andreev effect; SN and SNS junctions
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