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Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in the Superconducting State and Vortex Cores of the β-Pyrochlore KOs2O6

Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 101, no. 5, 057004
Publication date2008
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We performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on the pyrochlore superconductor KOs2O6 (Tc=9.6  K) in both zero magnetic field and the vortex state at several temperatures above 1.95 K. This material presents atomically flat surfaces, yielding spatially homogeneous spectra which reveal fully gapped superconductivity with a gap anisotropy of 30%. Measurements performed at fields of 2 and 6 T display a hexagonal Abrikosov flux line lattice. From the shape of the vortex cores, we extract a coherence length of 31–40 Å, in agreement with the value derived from the upper critical field Hc2. We observe a reduction in size of the vortex cores (and hence the coherence length) with increasing field which is consistent with the unexpectedly high and unsaturated upper critical field reported.

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DUBOIS, Cédric et al. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in the Superconducting State and Vortex Cores of the β-Pyrochlore KOs2O6. In: Physical review letters, 2008, vol. 101, n° 5, p. 057004. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.057004
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