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Reza Afzali

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Theoretical investigation of power absorbed by superconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence external time-dependent perturbation

The absorbed power in superconductors driven by a time-dependent external perturbation is investigated through transitions between Bogoliubov quasiparticle states. The transition matrix element contains the superconducting coherence factor, which determines the role of the gap, excitation spectrum, and external frequency in the absorption process. The formulation is applied to a Hubbard-model superconductor including correlated hopping and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In this model, numerical calculations are used to obtain the quasiparticle energies, density of states, chemical potential, and temperature-dependent superconducting gap. The normalized absorbed power is then evaluated for different values of temperature, interaction strength, correlated hopping parameter, and spin-orbit coupling strength. The results show that the absorption response is strongly affected by the superconducting gap and by changes in the quasiparticle spectrum. Rashba spin-orbit coupling changes the density of states and therefore modifies the absorption. These results show that hopping processes, interaction strength, and spin-orbit coupling play important roles in the ultrasonic and electromagnetic absorption of superconducting systems.

cond-mat.supr-con

Quantum Information Aspects on Bulk and Nano Interacting Fermi System: Spin-Space Density Matrix Approach

In this paper, we investigate quantum correlation of an interacting Fermi system, which is a nodal superconductor (d-wave superconductor) at zero temperature, via quantum entanglement of two electron spins forming Cooper pairs (Werner state), tripartite and quantum discord. After calculating single-electron Green functions, the two-electron space-spin density matrix, which has X-state form, is obtained. The dependence of quantum correlation to the relative distance of electrons spins of Cooper pair and energy gap is investigated. One of the results is, for d-wave case, concurrence (as a measure of entanglement), quantum discord and tripartite are sensitive to the change of magnitude of gap. Another result is both concurrence and discord oscillate. Then, we consider three-dimensional rectangular nano-superconducting grain in the weak coupling frame. The nano-size effect is entered via gap fluctuation. The dependence of quantum correlation to length of superconductor and lower bound of robustness of tripartite entanglement are determined. Moreover, we show that quantum correlation of d-wave nano-size superconducting grain strongly depends on length of grain (in contrast to s-wave case). In general, it is found that the length of grain lower, the effect of nano-size on quantum correlation higher. Quantum tripartite for nano-scale d-wave superconductor is better than for bulk d-wave superconductor. However, we find out both bulk and nano-size s-wave superconductors have the same tripartite. Furthermore, entanglement length and quantum correlation length are investigated and it is shown that there is a length of superconductor in which discord becomes zero. Also, for a given fixed length of superconductor, both a peak in discord and a peak in concurrence occur simultaneously.

cond-mat.supr-con

Nonlocal effects on penetration depth of FFLO d-wave superconductors

The penetration depth of FFLO d-wave superconductors is calculated, in presence of additional magnetic field for both parallel and perpendicular to the internal FFLO magnetic field, when the nonlocal effects are dominated. The generalized Gorkov equations have been used to obtain the linearized response kernel. It is shown that extra term added to total kernel with no spatially gap is proportional to the momentum of FFLO Cooper pairs, Q. For the case parallel to the internal FFLO magnetic field, below a crossover temperature T*, it is shown that Lambda(T)-Lambda(0) is proportional to T^3 for both specular reflecting and diffusive boundary. It is noted that both terms in penetration depth with and without Q dependence have the same temperature dependence but magnetic field dependence are different(the terms without and with Q dependence are proportional to 1/h' and 1/(h'^2) respectively). Also nonlocal effect on penetration depth of FFLO state in reign T>>T* obtains temperature dependence T^4. Furthermore, when external magnetic test-field is perpendicular to internal FFLO magnetic field, it is shown that nonlocal effects on penetration depth give the same Q and temperature dependence as the parallel case but with different internal and additional magnetic field dependences.

cond-mat.str-el