Publication Date:
2017-05-10
Description:
Author(s): Shu-Ping Lee, Roman M. Lutchyn, and Joseph Maciejko Here, the authors argue that the recent experimental discovery of Majorana zero modes in topological superconductors may be the key to realizing an elusive state of matter, the odd-frequency superconductor, in which Cooper pairing is entirely dynamical in nature. Via an exactly soluble model, it is shown that when Majorana zero modes couple to a spin-polarized metallic system, equal-spin s -wave odd-frequency pairing is generically induced in the spin-polarized metal. The key properties of odd-frequency superconductivity, such as a vanishing static superconducting order parameter and a paramagnetic Meissner effect, are demonstrated in this system by explicit calculations. [Phys. Rev. B 95, 184506] Published Mon May 08, 2017
Keywords:
Superfluidity and superconductivity
Print ISSN:
1098-0121
Electronic ISSN:
1095-3795
Topics:
Physics
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