Superconducting state properties of a d-wave superconductor with mass anisotropy
Abstract
YBaCuO (YBCO) exhibits a large anisotropy between the and axes in the CuO 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 CuO planes. The anisotropic parameter , where () is the effective mass in the () direction, is found to have significant physical consequences: In the bulk case, there exist both the - and -wave order parameters with the same transition temperature, as long as . The GL equations are also solved both analytically and numerically for the vortex state, and it is shown that both the - and -wave components show a two-fold symmetry, in contrast to the four-fold symmetry around the vortex, as expected for the purely -wave vortex. With the deviation of from unity, the opposite winding between the - and -wave components observed in the purely -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