Charged Vortices in High Temperature Superconductors Probed by NMR

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2000-12-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0012492v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

6 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Phys Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.63.144502

We report a first experimental evidence that a vortex in the high temperature superconductors (HTSC) traps a finite electric charge from the high resolution measurements of the nuclear quadrupole frequencies. In slightly overdoped YBa_2Cu_3O_7 the vortex is negatively charged by trapping electrons, while in underdoped YBa_2Cu_4O_8 it is positively charged by expelling electrons. The sign of the trapped charge is opposite to the sign predicted by the conventional BCS theory. Moreover, in both materials, the deviation of the magnitude of the charge from the theory is also significant. These unexpected features can be attributed to the novel electronic structure of the vortex in HTSC.

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