Superconducting vortex profile from fixed point measurements The Lazy Fisherman tunnelling microscopy method

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2005-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505056v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

The following article has been accepted by APL. After it is published, it will be found at http://apl.aip.org/

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1939077

We introduce a mode of operation for studying the vortex phase in superconductors using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). While in the conventional STM method, the tip is scanned over a sample in which a fixed vortex pattern is prepared, in our "Lazy Fisherman" method the STM tip is kept fixed at a selected location while the vortices are being moved by varying the applied magnetic field. By continuously acquiring the local tunnelling conductance spectra, dI/dV(V), we detect the changes in the local density of states under the tip due to the vortex motion. With no need for scanning, the method permits one to extend the study of vortices to samples in which scanning is difficult or even impossible due to surface nonuniformity and allows one to study vortex dynamics. Using a statistical analysis of the spectra, we reconstruct the single vortex zero bias conductance profile. We apply the method to the c-axis face of an MgB$_2$ single crystal sample and obtain a vortex profile with a coherence length, xi of 57+-2 nm.

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