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arXiv:0810.2772 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 15 Oct 2008]

Title:Inversion of specific heat oscillations with in-plane magnetic field angle in 2D d-wave superconductors

Authors:G.R.Boyd, P.J.Hirschfeld, I.Vekhter, A.B.Vorontsov
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Abstract: Experiments on several novel superconducting compounds have observed oscillations of the specific heat when an applied magnetic field is rotated with respect to the crystal axes. The results are commonly interpreted as arising from the nodes of an unconventional order parameter, but the identifications of nodal directions are sometimes controversial. Here we show with a semiclassical model calculation that when the magnetic field points in the direction of the nodes, either minima or maxima can occur in the specific heat depending on the the temperature $T$ and the magnetic field $H$. An inversion of the angular oscillations takes place with respect to those predicted earlier at low temperature by the nodal approximation.
This result, together with the argument that the inversion takes place based on an approximation valid at moderate fields, indicates that the inversion of specific heat oscillations is an intrinsic feature of nodal superconductors.
Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRB
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
Cite as: arXiv:0810.2772 [cond-mat.supr-con]
  (or arXiv:0810.2772v1 [cond-mat.supr-con] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0810.2772
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. B 79, 064525 (2009)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.064525

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From: Gregory Boyd [view email]
[v1] Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:35:22 UTC (408 KB)
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