Thursday, April 11, 2013

1304.2927 (Yoichi Higashi et al.)

Field-angle dependence of the quasiparticle scattering inside a vortex
core in unconventional superconductors
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Yoichi Higashi, Yuki Nagai, Masahiko Machida, Nobuhiko Hayashi
We theoretically investigate the quasiparticle scattering rate $\varGamma$ inside a vortex core in the existence of non-magnetic impurities distributed randomly in a superconductor. We show that the dependence of $\varGamma$ on the magnetic field direction is sensitive to the sign of the pair potential. The behavior of $\varGamma$ is quite different between an s-wave and a d-wave pair potential, where these are assumed to have the same amplitude anisotropy, but a sign change only for the d-wave one. It is suggested that measurements of the microwave surface impedance with changing applied-field directions would be used for the phase-sensitive identification of pairing symmetry.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2927

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