The Effect of Surfaces on the Tunneling Density of States of an Anisotropically Paired Superconductor

Details The Effect of Surfaces on the Tunneling Density of States of an Anisotropically Paired Superconductor The Effect of Surfaces on the Tunneling Density of States of an Anisotropically Paired Superconductor

1995-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9511028v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

14 pages of revtex text with 11 compressed and encoded figures. To appear in J. Low Temp. Phys., December, 1995

Scientific paper

10.1007/BF00754526

We present calculations of the tunneling density of states in an anisotropically paired superconductor for two different sample geometries: a semi-infinite system with a single specular wall, and a slab of finite thickness and infinite lateral extent. In both cases we are interested in the effects of surface pair breaking on the tunneling spectrum. We take the stable bulk phase to be of $d_{x^2-y^2}$ symmetry. Our calculations are performed within two different band structure environments: an isotropic cylindrical Fermi surface with a bulk order parameter of the form $\Delta\sim k_x^2-k_y^2$, and a nontrivial tight-binding Fermi surface with the order parameter structure coming from an anti-ferromagnetic spin-fluctuation model. In each case we find additional structures in the energy spectrum coming from the surface layer. These structures are sensitive to the orientation of the surface with respect to the crystal lattice, and have their origins in the detailed form of the momentum and spatial dependence of the order parameter. By means of tunneling spectroscopy, one can obtain information on both the anisotropy of the energy gap, $|\Delta(\p)|$, as well as on the phase of the order parameter, $\Delta(\p) = |\Delta(\p)|e^{i\varphi(\p)}$.

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