EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF A TIME-REVERSAL-INVARIANT ORDER-PARAMETER WITH A PI-SHIFT IN YBA2CU3O7-DELTA

被引:230
作者
MATHAI, A
GIM, Y
BLACK, RC
AMAR, A
WELLSTOOD, FC
机构
[1] Center for Superconductivity Research, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.4523
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
To determine the symmetry of the order parameter in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO), we use a scanning SQUID microscope at 4.2 K to perform independent experiments on six YBCO-Ag-Pb SQUIDs. We find completely unambiguous evidence for a time-reversal-invariant order parameter with a phase shift of π between the a and b directions of YBCO. Our results are inconsistent with purely s-wave symmetric pairing and are strongly suggestive of dx2-y2 symmetric pairing in YBCO. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:4523 / 4526
页数:4
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