Signature of the staggered flux state around a superconducting vortex in underdoped cuprates

Details Signature of the staggered flux state around a superconducting vortex in underdoped cuprates Signature of the staggered flux state around a superconducting vortex in underdoped cuprates

2001-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108478v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

27 pages, 14 figures in GIF format, typo corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.064526

Based on the SU(2) lattice gauge theory formulation of the t-J model, we discuss possible signature of the unit cell doubling associated with the staggered flux (SF) state in the lightly doped spin liquid. Although the SF state appears only dynamically in a uniform d-wave superconducting (SC) state, a topological defect [SU(2) vortex] freezes the SF state inside the vortex core. Consequently, the unit cell doubling shows up in the hopping ($\chi_{ij}$) and pairing ($\Delta_{ij}$) order parameters of physical electrons. We find that whereas the center in the vortex core is a SF state, as one moves away from the core center, a correlated staggered modulation of $\chi_{ij}$ and $\Delta_{ij}$ becomes predominant. We predict that over the region outside the core and inside the internal gauge field penetration depth around a vortex center, the local density-of-states (LDOS) exhibits staggered peak-dip (SPD) structure inside the V-shaped profile when measured on the bonds. The SPD structure has its direct origin in the unit cell doubling associated with the SF core and the robust topological texture, which has little to do with the symmetry of the d-wave order parameter. Therefore the structure may survive the tunneling matrix element effects and easily be detected by STM experiment.

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