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TT: Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 23: Posters Superconductivity, Solids at Low Temperature

TT 23.44: Poster

Monday, March 7, 2005, 14:00–18:00, Poster TU D

Shadow on the wall cast by an Abrikosov vortex — •Siegfried Graser, Christian Iniotakis, Thomas Dahm, and Nils Schopohl — Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076 Tübingen

At the surface of a d-wave superconductor, a zero-energy peak in the quasiparticle spectrum can be observed. This peak appears due to Andreev bound states and is maximal if the nodal direction of the d-wave pairing potential is perpendicular to the boundary. We examine the effect of a single Abrikosov vortex in front of a reflecting boundary on the zero-energy density of states. We can clearly see a splitting of the low-energy peak and therefore a suppression of the zero-energy density of states in a shadow-like region extending from the vortex to the boundary. This effect is stable for different models of the single Abrikosov vortex, for different mean free paths and also for different distances between the vortex center and the boundary. This observation promises to have also a substantial influence on the differential conductance and the tunneling characteristics for low excitation energies.