Time-reversal-symmetry-broken state in the BCS formalism for a multi-band superconductor

Wilson, Brendan; Das, Mukunda P

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Time-reversal-symmetry-broken state in the BCS formalism for a multi-band superconductor

Date

2013

Authors

Wilson, Brendan

Das, Mukunda P

Publisher

Institute of Physics Publishing

Abstract

In three-band BCS superconductors with repulsive inter-band interactions, frustration between the bands can lead to an inherently complex gap function, arising out of a phase difference between the bands in the range 0 and π. Since the complex conjugate