May, 2006
Specific heat and low-lying excitations in the mixed state for a type-II superconductor
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
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- Volume
- 73
- Number
- 17
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.172501
- Publisher
- AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
Low temperature behavior of the electronic specific heat C(T) in the mixed state is by the self-consistent calculation of the Eilenberger theory. In addition to the gamma T-term (gamma is a Sommerfeld coefficient), C(T) has a significant contribution of T-2-term intrinsic in the vortex state. We identify the origin of the T-2 term as (i) V-shape density of states in the vortex state and (ii) the Kramer-Pesch effect of vortex-core shrinking upon lowering T. These results for both full-gap and line-node cases reveal that the vortex core is a richer electronic structure beyond the normal core picture.
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- DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.172501
- ISSN : 1098-0121
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000237950200026