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arxiv: 1106.6311 · v3 · pith:Y4QJHOOXnew · submitted 2011-06-30 · ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con · cond-mat.str-el

Superconductivity near Pomeranchuk instabilities in the spin channel

classification ❄️ cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.str-el
keywords phasepomeranchukchannelcouplingfoundinstabilityinteractionspin
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We study the competition between a Pomeranchuk instability in the spin channel with angular momentum $\ell=1$ and an attractive interaction, favoring Cooper-pair formation. We found that the superconducting gap strongly suppresses the phase space for the Pomeranchuk instability. We computed a mean-field phase diagram displaying a first order transition between two superconductor phases with different symmetries: p-wave (with spontaneously generated spin-orbit interaction) and s-wave for greater values of the coupling constant. Moreover, we have looked for a possible modulated superconducting phase. We have found that this phase appears only as a meta-stable state in the strong coupling regime.

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