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High Angular Momentum Core States and Impurity Effects in the Mixed State of d-Wave Superconductors Jian-Xin Zhu,1 C. S. Ting,2 and A. V. Balatsky1 1 Theoretical Division, MS B262, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 1 2 Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 0 0 The local quasiparticle spectra around the vortex core of a d-wave superconductor in the mixed 2 state is studied by solving the lattice Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations self-consistently. It is shown p that in addition to the zero-energy states, there also exist core states of high angular momentum. e A nonmagnetic unitary impurity sitting at the core center is nondestructive to these core states and S the zero-energy resonant state induced by itself is still visible in the local quasiparticle spectrum. The calculated imaging shows a fourfold “star” shape of the local density of states whose orientation 6 is energy dependent. It is also found that, although the zero-energy states are extended, the core 2 states of finite energy level could be localized. ] n PACS numbers: 74.25.Jb, 74.50.+r, 74.60.Ec o c - In the Abrikosov vortex state (also called mixed state the diagonals of square CuO2 lattice. In some respect, r p or Schubnikov phase) of type-II superconductors, the the spatial variation of the pair potential is analogous u magnetic flux penetrates into the system in quantized to a potential well ca