Issue
J. Phys. IV France
Volume 131, December 2005
Page(s) 323 - 330
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:2005131082
Published online 18 January 2006
International Workshop on Electronic Crystals
S. Brazovskii, P. Monceau and N. Kirova
J. Phys. IV France 131 (2005) 323-330

DOI: 10.1051/jp4:2005131082

Scaling relations in the vortex state of nodal superconductors

K. Maki1, 2, D. Parker1, 2 and H. Won1, 3

1  Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
2  Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484, USA
3  Department of Physics, Hallym University, Chuncheon 200-702, South Korea


Abstract
In contrast to multigap superconductors (e.g. MgB2), the low-temperature properties of nodal superconductors are dominated by nodal excitations. Here we extend for a variety of nodal superconductors the earlier work by Simon and Lee and Kübert and Hirschfeld. The scaling relations seen in the thermodynamics and the thermal conductivity will provide an unequivocal test of nodal superconductivity.



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