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Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of a vortex core from the clean to the dirty limit

Published inPhysical Review Letters, vol. 67, no. 12, p. 1650-1652
Publication date1991
Abstract

The local density of states of a superconducting vortex core has been measured as a function of disorder in the alloy system Nb1-xTaxSe2 using a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The peak observed in the zero-bias conductance at a vortex center is found to be very sensitive to disorder. As the mean free path is decreased by substitutional alloying the peak gradually disappears and for x = 0.2 the density of states in the vortex center is found to be equal to that in the normal state. The vortex-core spectra hence may provide a sensitive measure of the quasiparticle scattering time.

Keywords
  • Superconducting layered compounds
  • Abrikosov flux lattice
  • Upper critical fields
  • Density
  • States
  • Microscope
  • Temperature
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RENNER, Christoph et al. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of a vortex core from the clean to the dirty limit. In: Physical Review Letters, 1991, vol. 67, n° 12, p. 1650–1652. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.1650
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