Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000rpph...63.1641k&link_type=abstract
Reports on Progress in Physics, Volume 63, Issue 10, pp. 1641-1724 (2000).
Physics
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Recent studies on high-Tc superconductors have aroused new interest in tunnelling effects in unconventional superconductors. Unlike in conventional s-wave superconductors, the d-wave pairing state in these materials has an internal phase of the pair potential. The internal phase as a function of the wavevector of the Cooper pairs has a large influence on the electric properties of tunnelling junctions. Important effects of the internal phase on the Josephson current were first predicted theoretically. The idea has been established through several experiments using high-Tc Josephson junctions, which detect π-phase shift between the a- and b-axis directions and fractional flux quanta. These results give convincing evidence for d-wave symmetry in high-Tc superconductors. In addition, the existence of new interference effects in the quasiparticle states near surfaces and boundaries has been suggested through theoretical predictions. Experimentally, a large number of tunnelling spectroscopy data showed zero-bias conductance peaks (ZBCPs), the origin of which cannot be explained in terms of the classical concept that a tunnelling conductance spectrum is a phase-insensitive probe of the electronic states. It is clarified theoretically that the observed ZBCPs reflect the formation of zero-energy states on the surface due to the π-phase shift of internal phase in the d-wave pairing symmetry. The formulation developed for tunnelling spectroscopy suggests that tunnelling spectroscopy is essentially phase sensitive. In addition, the formation of the bound states has been shown to have a serious influence on the electrical properties of Josephson junctions. Several anomalous properties including strong enhancement of the Josephson current in the low-temperature region have been predicted theoretically. In this report, recent developments in tunnelling effects on surface bound states in unconventional superconductors are reviewed.
Kashiwaya Satoshi
Tanaka Yukio
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