Domain Walls in a Tetragonal Chiral p-Wave Superconductor

Abstract

Domain walls in a tetragonal chiral p-wave superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry are analyzed in the framework of the Ginsburg-Landau theory. The energy and the jump of the magnetic induction on the wall were determined for different types of walls as functions of the parameters of the Ginzburg-Landau theory and orientation of the domain wall with respect to the crystallographic axes. We discuss implications of the analysis for $S{r}_{2}Ru{O}_4$, where no stray magnetic fields from domain walls were detected experimentally.

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