First order superconducting phase transition in chiral $p+ip$ system

Abstract

We use large-scale Monte Carlo computations to study the phase transitions of a two-component chiral p-wave superconductor in zero external magnetic field. We find a first order phase transition from the normal state to a chiral superconducting state, due to interplay between vortices and domain walls.

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