Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems
  By using Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations, we study superconducting (SC) states in a quasi 2-dimensional system of radius $R$. It is shown that no vortices exist in s-wave SC samples with $R<R_\text{c}\sim\xi(0)$, the T=0 coherence length. We predict that chiral p-wave states exhibit superconductivity for $R<R_\text{c}$ only in the presence of a vortex with opposite chirality. This {\it induced} SC phase is a consequence of non-zero chirality of the pairing order parameter and implies the presence of chiral edge currents. Our study may be applied to sharply probing the pairing symmetry of unconventional superconductors. 
Jia-Wei Huo, Wei-Qiang Chen, S. Raghu, Fu-Chun Zhang
cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mes-hall