Inverse Faraday Effect in Superconductors with a Finite Gap in the Excitation Spectrum

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Abstract

The inverse Faraday effect (generation of a time-independent magnetic moment under the action of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave) in mesoscopic superconducting samples with a finite gap in the excitation spectrum is analytically described. Within the modified time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau theory (Kramer–Watts-Tobin equations) for thin superconducting disks, it is shown that the temperature dependence of the optically induced magnetic moment is nonmonotonic in a wide range of parameters and contains a maximum. This maximum is due to the dephasing between the spatial oscillations of the magnitude and the phase of the order parameter, which arises with a decrease in the temperature and, correspondingly, in the characteristic relaxation time of perturbations in the superconducting condensate.

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A. V Putilov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Email: alputilov@ipmras.ru

S. V Mironov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Email: alputilov@ipmras.ru

A. S Mel'nikov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), 141701, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region, Russia

Email: alputilov@ipmras.ru

A. A Bespalov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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Email: alputilov@ipmras.ru

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