Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d-wave superconductors

Details Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d-wave superconductors Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d-wave superconductors

2005-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511298v2

Physical Review B 73, 134511 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

17 pages (+9 in appendices), 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.134511

We describe the influence of the gapless, nodal, fermionic quasiparticles of a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor on the motion of vortices. A continuum, functional formalism is used to obtain the effective vortex action, after the fermions have been integrated out. At zero temperture (T), the leading terms in the vortex action retain their original form, with only a finite renormalization of the vortex effective mass from the fermions. A universal "sub-ohmic" damping of the vortex motion is also found. At T>0, we find a Bardeen-Stephen viscous drag term, with a universal co-efficient which vanishes as ~T^2. We present a simple scaling interpretation of our results, in which quantum-critical Dirac fermions respond to a moving point singularity. Our results appear to differ from those of the semiclassical theory, which obtains more singular corrections to a vortex mass appearing in transport equations.

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