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Autori principali: Severino, Ramiro, Mininni, Pablo, Fradkin, Eduardo, Bekeris, Victoria, Pasquini, Gabriela, Lozano, Gustavo
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06639
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author Severino, Ramiro
Mininni, Pablo
Fradkin, Eduardo
Bekeris, Victoria
Pasquini, Gabriela
Lozano, Gustavo
author_facet Severino, Ramiro
Mininni, Pablo
Fradkin, Eduardo
Bekeris, Victoria
Pasquini, Gabriela
Lozano, Gustavo
contents In this work we study the interaction between vortices and nematic domain walls within the framework of a Ginzburg Landau approach. The free energy of the system is written in terms of a complex order parameter characteristic of $s$-wave superconductivity and a real (Ising type) order parameter associated to nematicity. The interaction between both order parameters is described by a biquadratic and a trilinear derivative term. To study the effects of these interactions we solve the time-dependent dissipative Ginzburg Landau equations using a highly performant pseudospectral method by which we calculate the trajectories of a vortex that, for different coupling parameters, is either attracted or repelled by a wall, as well as of the wall dynamics. We show that despite its simplicity, this theory displays many phenomena observed experimentally in Fe-based superconductors. In particular we find that the sign of the biquadratic term determines the attractive (pining) or repulsive (antipining) character of the interaction, as observed in FeSe and BaFeCoAs compounds respectively. The trilinear term is responsible for the elliptical shape of vortex cores as well as for the orientation of the axes of the ellipses and vortex trajectories with respect to the axes of the structural lattice. For the case of pining, we show that the vortex core is well described by a heart-shaped structure in agreement with STM experiments performed in FeSe.
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spellingShingle A Ginzburg-Landau approach to the vortex-domain wall interaction in superconductors with nematic order
Severino, Ramiro
Mininni, Pablo
Fradkin, Eduardo
Bekeris, Victoria
Pasquini, Gabriela
Lozano, Gustavo
Superconductivity
In this work we study the interaction between vortices and nematic domain walls within the framework of a Ginzburg Landau approach. The free energy of the system is written in terms of a complex order parameter characteristic of $s$-wave superconductivity and a real (Ising type) order parameter associated to nematicity. The interaction between both order parameters is described by a biquadratic and a trilinear derivative term. To study the effects of these interactions we solve the time-dependent dissipative Ginzburg Landau equations using a highly performant pseudospectral method by which we calculate the trajectories of a vortex that, for different coupling parameters, is either attracted or repelled by a wall, as well as of the wall dynamics. We show that despite its simplicity, this theory displays many phenomena observed experimentally in Fe-based superconductors. In particular we find that the sign of the biquadratic term determines the attractive (pining) or repulsive (antipining) character of the interaction, as observed in FeSe and BaFeCoAs compounds respectively. The trilinear term is responsible for the elliptical shape of vortex cores as well as for the orientation of the axes of the ellipses and vortex trajectories with respect to the axes of the structural lattice. For the case of pining, we show that the vortex core is well described by a heart-shaped structure in agreement with STM experiments performed in FeSe.
title A Ginzburg-Landau approach to the vortex-domain wall interaction in superconductors with nematic order
topic Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06639