Electrostatic Potential in High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates Extended Ginzburg-Landau Theory.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Condensed Matter Physics Volume 2011, Article ID 493794, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2011/493794 Research Article Electrostatic Potential in High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates: Extended Ginzburg-Landau Theory Madhuparna Karmakar Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector-III, Saltlake, Kolkata 700098, India Correspondence should be addressed to Madhuparna Karmakar, madhuparna@bose.res.in Received 8 March 2011; Revised 12 May 2011; Accepted 13 July 2011 Academic Editor: P. Guptasarma Copyright © 2011 Madhuparna Karmakar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The electrostatic potential and the associated charge distribution in the vortices of high-Tc superconductors involving mixed symmetry state of the order parameters have been studied. The work is carried out in the framework of an extended Ginzburg- Landau (GL) theory involving the Gorter-Casimir two-fluid model and Bardeen’s extension of GL theory applied to the high-Tc superconductors. The properties are calculated using the material parameters relevant for the high-Tc cuprate YBCO. 1. Introduction by the band structure of the superconducting material [9, 10]. The experimentally observed Hall anomaly in high- A key feature which characterizes the vortices in any type- temperature superconductors has been attributed to the II superconductor is the ability of