Time-reversal symmetry breaking and gapped surface states due to spontaneous emergence of new order in d-wave nanoislands

We solve the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations self-consistently for the d-wave order parameter in nanoscale d-wave systems with [110] surfaces and show that spontaneous time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking occurs at low temperatures due to a spontaneously induced complex order parameter of extended s...

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Main Authors: Nagai, Yuki, Ota, Yukihiro, Tanaka, K.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110918