Superconductivity on the density-wave background with soliton-wall structure

Superconductivity (SC) may microscopically coexist with density wave (DW) when the nesting of the Fermi surface (FS) is not perfect. There are, at least, two possible microscopic structures of a DW state with quasi-particle states remaining on the Fermi level and leading to the Cooper instability: (i) the soliton-wall phase and (ii) the small ungapped FS pockets. The dispersion of such quasi-particle states strongly differs from that without DW, and so do the properties of SC on the DW background. The upper critical field Hc2Hc2 in such an SC state strongly increases as the system approaches the critical pressure, where SC first appears. Hc2Hc2 may considerably exceed its typical value without DW and has unusual upward curvature as function of temperature. The results obtained explain the experimental observations in layered organic superconductors (TMTSF)2PF6 and αα-(BEDT-TTF)2KHg(SCN)4.