Skyrmionic state and stable half-quantum vortices in chiral p-wave superconductors
Julien Garaud, Egor Babaev
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.060514 · Physical Review B
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Abstract
Observability of half-quantum vortices and skyrmions in p-wave superconductors is an outstanding open question. Under the most common conditions, fractional flux vortices are not thermodynamically stable in bulk samples. Here we show that in chiral p-wave superconductors, there is a regime where, in contrast, lattices of integer-flux vortices are not thermodynamically stable. Instead, skyrmions made of spatially separated half-quantum vortices are the topological defects produced by an applied external field.
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