VORTEX STATES IN UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS / ESTADOS DE VORTICES EM SUPERCONDUTORES NAO-CONVENCIONAIS
AUTOR(ES)
MARCO E SILVA DE MELO TAVORA
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2002
RESUMO
The theory of Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS) had great success in explaining most properties of superconducting materials. These materials, where BCS applies, are denominated conventional superconductors. the experimental evidence of unconventional superconductivity in several materials reopened discussions about the phenomenon. While, in conventional materials, the superconducting phase involves only the breaking of gauge symmetry, in the unconventional materials the phase is characterized by several additional broken symmetries. The microscope mechanism of superconductivity in this new classes of materials is still an open question. However, many phisical properties can be understood considering only symmetries of the superconducting order parameter, which is intimately linked to Cooper pair wave function. In this work some properties of these new superconductors are analyzed based symmetry criteria. Special emphasis is given to the class of unconventional superconductors where time- reversal symmetry is broken. For these materials, some unusual properties are predicted. When the crystal structure has high symmetry, the appearence of a spin polarization in the condensate is possible. In these cases, an intrinsic magnetization can lead to the information of a spontanous vortex phase. A strong anisotropic response to an externally applied magnetic field also occurs.
ASSUNTO(S)
supercondutores nao-convencionais cooper pairs pares de cooper symmetries vortices unconventional superconductors vortex simetrias
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