Spin Ordering and Quasiparticles in Spin Triplet Superconducting Liquids

Abstract

Spin ordering and its effect on low energy quasiparticles in a p-wave superconducting liquid are investigated. We show that there is a new 2D p-wave superconducting liquid where the ground state is rotation invariant. In quantum spin disordered liquids, the low energy quasiparticles are bound states of the bare Bogolubov- De Gennes (${\em BdeG}$) quasiparticles and zero energy skyrmions, which are charge neutral bosons at the low energy limit. Further more, spin collective excitations are fractionalized ones carrying a half spin and obeying fermionic statistics. In thermally spin disordered limits, the quasi-particles are bound states of bare ${\em BdeG}$ quasi-particles. The latter situation can be realized in some layered p-wave superconductors where the spin-orbit coupling is weak.

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