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Skyrmionic state in chiral p-wave superconductors

, and . (2012)cite arxiv:1201.2946 Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures.

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Observability of fractional vortices and Skyrmions in superconductors is a question which attracted recently increasing attention. Under the most common conditions, fractional vortices are not thermodynamically stable in bulk samples. Here we show that in chiral p-wave superconductors, there is a regime where, in contrast lattices of integer flux vortices are not thermodynamically stable. Instead Skyrmions and fractional vortices are the topological defects produced by an applied external field.

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Skyrmionic state in chiral p-wave superconductors

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