Phys. Rev. B 57, 13403 - 13405 (1998)

Magnetic induction of high angular momentum pairing symmetry

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Wonkee Kim, Jian-Xin Zhu, and C. S. Ting
Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204

Received 22 December 1997

We show that two g-wave components of the order parameter are induced by the internal orbital motion of d-wave pairing electrons in the presence of a magnetic field without assuming additional pairing interactions. Near a d-wave vortex center, the g-wave components with a relative phase π/2 have an opposite winding number with respect to the dominant d-wave component. The spatial dependence of the magnetically induced g-wave components is the same as that of an induced s-wave component by spatial variation of the d-wave component and each g-wave component has a fourfold symmetry. Therefore, the vortex has an eight-lobe profile.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v57/p13403
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.13403
PACS: 74.20.De, 74.20.Mn

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