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Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems

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arxiv 1108.2380 v4 pith:Y5TNDKOA submitted 2011-08-11 cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mes-hall

Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems

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By using Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations, we study superconducting (SC) states in a quasi 2-dimensional system of radius $R$. It is shown that no vortices exist in s-wave SC samples with $R<R_\text{c}\sim\xi(0)$, the T=0 coherence length. We predict that chiral p-wave states exhibit superconductivity for $R<R_\text{c}$ only in the presence of a vortex with opposite chirality. This {\it induced} SC phase is a consequence of non-zero chirality of the pairing order parameter and implies the presence of chiral edge currents. Our study may be applied to sharply probing the pairing symmetry of unconventional superconductors.

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