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Superconducting Vortex with Antiferromagnetic Core

Superconductivity 2008-11-26 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We show that a superconducting vortex in underdoped high T_c superconductors could have an antiferromagnetic core. This type of vortex configuration arises as a topological solution in the recently constructed SO(5) nonlinear sigma model and in Ginzburg-Landau theory with competing antiferromagnetic and superconducting order parameters. Experimental detection of this type of vortex by \mu SR and neutron scattering is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9704048,
  title  = {Superconducting Vortex with Antiferromagnetic Core},
  author = {Daniel P. Arovas and A. J. Berlinsky and C. Kallin and Shou-Cheng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9704048},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

revised version; 4 pages, LaTeX, 3 encapsulated postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett