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May, 2006

Specific heat and low-lying excitations in the mixed state for a type-II superconductor

PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • N. Nakai
  • ,
  • P. Miranovic
  • ,
  • M. Ichioka
  • ,
  • K. Machida

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
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.172501
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https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000237950200026&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.172501
  • ISSN : 1098-0121
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000237950200026

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