Time-reversal symmetry breaking from lattice dislocations in superconductors
Clara N. Breiø, Andreas Kreisel, Mercè Roig, P. J. Hirschfeld, Brian M. Andersen
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.014505 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Spontaneous generation of time-reversal symmetry breaking in unconventional superconductors is currently a topic of considerable interest. While chiral superconducting order is often assumed to be the source of such signatures, they can sometimes also arise from nonmagnetic disorder. Here we perform a theoretical study of the impact of dislocations on the superconducting order parameter within a microscopic one-band model which, in the homogeneous case, features either extended s-wave, d-wave, or s+id-wave superconductivity depending on the electron concentration. We find that the dislocations minimize their impact on the superconducting condensate by inducing localized supercurrents pinned by the dislocations, even well outside the s+id regime. We map out the parameter and density dependence of the induced currents. From these results we conclude that quite generically unconventional superconductors hosting dislocations tend to break time-reversal symmetry locally.
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