Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
1998-12-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
RevTeX 3.0, 4 pages, 3 figures (included)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4703
In the presence of an external magnetic field, the low lying elementary excitations of a d-wave superconductor have quantized energy and their momenta are locked near the node direction. It is argued that these discrete states can most likely be detected by a local probe, such as a scanning tunneling microscope. The low temperature local tunneling conductance on the Wigner-Seitz cell boundaries of the vortex lattice is predicted to show peaks spaced as $\pm \sqrt{n}, n ={0,1,2, ...}$. The $n=0$ peak is anomalous, and it is present only if the superconducting order parameter changes sign at certain points on the Fermi surface. Away from the cell boundary, where the superfluid velocity is nonzero, each peak splits, in general, into four peaks, corresponding to the number of nodes in the order parameter.
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