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Resolving the order parameter of High-Tc Superconductors through quantum pumping spectroscopy

Colin Benjamin

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0411007

Abstract

The order parameter of High-Tc superconductors through a series of experiments has been quite conclusively demonstrated to not be of the normal s-wave type. It is either a pure dx2-y2-wave type or a mixture of a dx2-y2-wave with a small imaginary s-wave or dxy-wave component. In this work a distinction is brought out among the four types, i.e., s- wave, dx2-y2- wave, dx2-y2+is - wave and dx2-y2+idxy- wave types with the help of quantum pumping spectroscopy. This involves a normal metal double barrier structure in contact with a High-Tc superconductor. The pumped current, heat and noise show different characteristics with change in order parameter revealing quite easily the differences among these.

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