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Superconducting state properties of a d-wave superconductor with mass anisotropy

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

YBa2_2Cu3_3O7_7 (YBCO) exhibits a large anisotropy between the aa and bb axes in the CuO2_2 planes because of the presence of CuO chains. In order to account for such an anisotropy we develop a Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory for an anisotropic d-wave superconductor in an external magnetic field, based on an anisotropic effective mass approximation within CuO2_2 planes. The anisotropic parameter λ=mx/my\lambda=m_x/m_y, where mxm_x (mym_y) is the effective mass in the xx (yy) direction, is found to have significant physical consequences: In the bulk case, there exist both the ss- and dd-wave order parameters with the same transition temperature, as long as λ1\lambda\ne 1. The GL equations are also solved both analytically and numerically for the vortex state, and it is shown that both the ss- and dd-wave components show a two-fold symmetry, in contrast to the four-fold symmetry around the vortex, as expected for the purely dd-wave vortex. With the deviation of λ\lambda from unity, the opposite winding between the ss- and dd-wave components observed in the purely dd-wave case is gradually taken over by the same winding number. The vortex lattice is found to have oblique structure in a wide temperature range with the precise shape depending on the anisotropy.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9511130,
  title  = {Superconducting state properties of a d-wave superconductor with mass anisotropy},
  author = {Ji-Hai Xu and Yong Ren and C. S. Ting},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9511130},
  year   = {2007}
}

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16 pages, latex, 11 figures availabe on request