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Volume 102, Number 2, April 2013
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Article Number | 27004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/102/27004 | |
Published online | 08 May 2013 |
Half-flux quanta and vortex-antivortex pairs in two-band superconductors
Department of Physics, Shanghai University - 99 Shangda Road, Shanghai 200444, China
Received: 4 March 2013
Accepted: 9 April 2013
Vortex states of two-band superconductors are investigated based on the microscopic Ginzburg-Landau model. We show that the nonlocal interband coupling can lead to the breaking of translation symmetry and the axial rotation symmetry of the conventional Abrikosov vortex states, resulting in a novel vortex structure comprising a mixture of triangle and square-like vortex lattices that have no counterparts in the single-band superconductors. Half-quantized vortices and stable vortex-antivortex pairs are found. These results may relate to the experimental observations of anomalous vortex structures in the two-band magnesium diboride superconductor.
PACS: 74.25.Ha – Magnetic properties including vortex structures and related phenomena / 74.20.De – Phenomenological theories (two-fluid, Ginzburg-Landau, etc.) / 74.25.Uv – Vortex phases (includes vortex lattices, vortex liquids, and vortex glasses)
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