Supercurrent distribution in real-space and anomalous paramagnetic response in a superconducting quasicrystal

Autor: Takumi Fukushima, Nayuta Takemori, Shiro Sakai, Masanori Ichioka, Anuradha Jagannathan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 5, Iss 4, p 043164 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043164
Popis: We theoretically study the real-space distribution of the supercurrent that flows under a uniform vector potential in a two-dimensional quasiperiodic structure. This is done by considering the attractive Hubbard model on the quasiperiodic Ammann-Beenker structure and studying the superconducting phase within the Bogoliubov-de Gennes mean-field theory. Decomposing the local supercurrent into the paramagnetic and diamagnetic components, we numerically investigate their dependencies on average electron density, temperature, and the angle of the applied vector potential. We find that the diamagnetic current locally violates the current conservation law, necessitating compensation from the paramagnetic current, even at zero temperature. The paramagnetic current shows exotic behaviors in the quasiperiodic structure, such as local currents, which are oriented transversally or reversely to that of the applied vector potential.
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