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Superconducting Vortex with Antiferromagnetic Core

Daniel P. Arovas, A. J. Berlinsky, C. Kallin, Shou-Cheng Zhang

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9704048

Abstract

We show that a superconducting vortex in underdoped high Tc superconductors could have an antiferromagnetic core. This type of vortex configuration arises as a topological solution in the recently constructed SO(5) nonlinear sigma model and in Ginzburg-Landau theory with competing antiferromagnetic and superconducting order parameters. Experimental detection of this type of vortex by μSR and neutron scattering is proposed.

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