Abstract
The ab-plane normal-metal/insulator/superconductor-tunnelling conductance in d-wave superconductors shows a zero-bias conductance peak which is predicted to split in a magnetic field. In a pure d-wave super-conductor the splitting is linear for fields small on the scale of the thermodynamic critical field, The field dependence is shown to be nonlinear, even at low fields, in the vicinity of a surface phase transition into a local time-reversal symmetry breaking state. The field evolution of the conductance is sensitive to temperature, doping, and the symmetry of the subdominant pairing channel.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 012503 |
| Pages (from-to) | 012503-1-012503-4 |
| Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jul 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported by the NSF Grant No. DMR 9972087, and the Swedish Research Council, VR.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics