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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 93, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.014503
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- NSF [DMR-0954342]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [0954342] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We study the dynamics of a superconducting condensate in the presence of a domain wall defect in the order parameter. We find that broken translation and reflection symmetries result in collective excitations, bound to the domain wall region. Two additional amplitude/Higgs modes lie below the bulk pair-breaking edge 2 Delta; one of them is a Goldstone mode with vanishing excitation energy. The spectrum of bound collective modes is related to the topological structure and stability of the domain wall. The unbound bulk collective modes and transverse gauge field mostly propagate across the domain wall, but the longitudinal component of the gauge field is completely reflected. Softening of the amplitude mode suggests reduced damping and a possible route to its detection in geometrically confined superfluids or in superconductor-ferromagnetic heterostructures.
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