Searching for zeroes: Unconventional superconductors in a magnetic field

✍ Scribed by I. Vekhter; A. Vorontsov

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 471 KB
• Volume: 403
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2007.10.237

✦ Synopsis

We review the results of the microscopic approach to the calculation of the anisotropy in the specific heat in unconventional superconductors under rotated field. Treating vortex scattering on equal footing with the energy shift we find that the electronic specific heat may have minima or maxima when the field is aligned with the nodes, depending on the temperature and field range. We discuss the influence of the paramagnetic limiting and Fermi surface shape on the location of the inversion line.