Paring instability in the mixed state of d-wave superconductor

Details Paring instability in the mixed state of d-wave superconductor Paring instability in the mixed state of d-wave superconductor

2009-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/0901.2701v2

Phys. Rev. B 79, 174503 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

7 pages, 1 figure

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We propose that an excitonic gap can be generated along nodal directions by Coulomb interaction in the mixed state of d-wave cuprate superconductors. In a superconductor, the Coulomb interaction usually can not generate any fermion gap since its strength is weakened by superfluidity. It becomes stronger as superfluid density is suppressed by external magnetic field, and is able to generate a gap for initially gapless nodal quasiparticles beyond some critical field $H_{c}$. By solving the gap equation, it is found that the nodal gap increases with growing field $H$, which leads to a suppression of thermal conductivity at zero temperature. This mechanism naturally produces the field-induced thermal metal-insulator transition observed in transport experiments.

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