Specific Heat of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7 - {\rm δ}}$ Single Crystals: Implications for the Vortex Structure

Details Specific Heat of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7 - {\rm δ}}$ Single Crystals: Implications for the Vortex Structure Specific Heat of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7 - {\rm δ}}$ Single Crystals: Implications for the Vortex Structure

1995-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9505129v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

14 pages (LaTeX2e) plus 6 uuencoded .eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/0022-3697(95)00163-8

The anisotropy of the magnetic field dependence of the specific heat of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7 - {\rm \delta}}$ can be used to identify different low-energy excitations, which include phonons, spin-$ \frac{1}{2}$ particles, and electronic contributions. With a magnetic field H applied perpendicular to the copper oxide planes, we find that the specific heat includes a linear-T term proportional to $\sqrt{H}$. The nonlinear field dependence of the density of states at the Fermi level suggests that there are quasiparticle excitations throughout the entire vortex, not just in the vortex core. The $\sqrt{H} T$ term agrees quantitatively with G. Volovik's prediction for a superconductor with lines of nodes in the gap. A similar, but much smaller, effect is predicted for fields parallel to the planes, and sensitive measurements of the in-plane anisotropic magnetic field dependence of the specific heat could be used to map out the nodes.

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