Abstract
In noncentrosymmetric superconductors the pair potential has both even-parity singlet and odd-parity triplet components. If time-reversal symmetry is broken, the superconducting phase of these components is not the same, for example in anapole superconductors. In this paper it is shown that breaking time-reversal symmetry by a phase difference between the two components significantly alters both the density of states and the conductance in -wave superconductors. The density of states and conductance in -wave superconductors are less influenced by adding a phase difference because time-reversal symmetry is already broken in the -wave superconductor. The Tanaka-Nazarov boundary conditions are extended to 3D superconductors, allowing us to investigate a greater variety of superconductors, such as Balian-Werthamer superconductors, in which the direction of the vector is parallel to the direction of momentum. The results are important for the determination of pair potentials in potentially time-reversal symmetry broken noncentrosymmetric superconductors.
14 More- Received 6 June 2023
- Revised 21 July 2023
- Accepted 28 July 2023
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.094503
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