Rotation of Triangular Vortex Lattice in the Two-Band Superconductor MgB2
Abstract
To identify the contributions of the multiband nature and the anisotropy of a microscopic electronic structure to a macroscopic vortex lattice morphology, we develop a method based on the Eilenberger theory near Hc2 combined with the first-principles band calculation to estimate the stable vortex lattice configuration. For a typical two-band superconductor MgB2, successive transitions of vortex lattice orientation that have been observed recently by small angle neutron scattering [Das, et al.: Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 167001] are explained by the characteristic field-dependence of twoband superconductivity and the competition of sixfold anisotropy between the sigma- and pi-bands. The reentrant transition at low temperature reflects the Fermi velocity anisotropy of the sigma-band.
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@article{arxiv.1304.7314,
title = {Rotation of Triangular Vortex Lattice in the Two-Band Superconductor MgB2},
author = {Tomoya Hirano and Kenta Takamori and Masanori Ichioka and Kazushige Machida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7314},
year = {2014}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures