Stripe order in superfluid He-3 confined in narrow cylinders

作者:Aoyama Kazushi*
来源:Physical Review B, 2014, 89(14): 140502.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.140502

摘要

We theoretically investigate pairing states of the spin-triplet p-wave superfluid He-3 confined in narrow cylinders. The surface-induced distortion and the multiple internal degrees of freedom of the order parameter lead to the occurrence of a stripe structure along the cylinder axis in the superfluid He-3-B phase. We show that in sufficiently small cylinders with an anisotropic surface scattering, the stripe order with broken translational symmetry may be stabilized as the lowest energy state. Periodic spin-current textures caused in this inhomogeneous superfluid phase are also discussed.

  • 出版日期2014-4-11