Proposed Spontaneous Generation of Magnetic Fields by Curved Layers of a Chiral Superconductor

• We demonstrate that two-dimensional chiral superconductors on curved surfaces spontaneously develop magnetic flux. This geometric Meissner effect provides an unequivocal signature of chiral superconductivity, which could be observed in layered materials under stress. We also employ the effect to explain some puzzling questions related to the location of zero-energy Majorana modes.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Meissner effect

Pressure effects

Stress

Superconducting magnet calculations

Superconducting phase transition

Topological superconductors

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art (subject category)