Abstract
The Abrikosov flux lattice is imaged in Nb by tunneling into the superconducting gap edge with a low-temperature scanning-tunneling microscope. The tunneling conductance into a single vortex core is strongly peaked at the Fermi energy, suggesting the existence of core states or core excitations. As one moves away from the core, this feature evolves into a density of states which is consistent with a BCS superconducting gap.
- Received 28 October 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.214
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