London penetration depth and pair breaking

Agreement between local and global measurements of the London penetration depth

Recent measurements of the superconducting penetration depth in Ba(Fe1 xCox)2As2 appeared to disagree on the magnitude and curvature of Dkab(T), even near optimal doping. These measurements were carried out on different samples grown by different groups. To understand the discrepancy, we use scanning SQUID susceptometry and a tunnel diode resonator to measure the penetration depth in a single s...

Direct measurement of the London penetration depth in YBa2Cu3O6.92 using low-energy μSR

R. F. Kiefl, 2, 3 M. D. Hossain, 2 B. M. Wojek, 5 S. R. Dunsiger, G. D. Morris, T. Prokscha, Z. Salman, J. Baglo, D. A. Bonn, 3 R. Liang, 3 W. N. Hardy, 3 A. Suter, and E. Morenzoni Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1 TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada Paul Sch...

Singularity of the London penetration depth at quantum critical points in superconductors.

We present a general theory of the singularity in the London penetration depth at symmetry-breaking and topological quantum critical points within a superconducting phase. While the critical exponents and ratios of amplitudes on the two sides of the transition are universal, an overall sign depends upon the interplay between the critical theory and the underlying Fermi surface. We determine the...

Continuous penetration depth

We present a new measure for computing continuous penetration depth between two intersecting rigid objects. We generate a set of samples in the configuration space, precompute an approximation of the contact space for two intersecting objects using binary classification techniques, and construct a bijective mapping between the spherical space and the precomputed contact space. For a given in-co...

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