Intrinsic c-axis tunnelling in the superconducting state has been measured in zero and finite fields in small mesa structures fabricated on the surface of 2212-BSCCO single crystals. The temperature dependence of the zero-field critical current and quasi-particle conductance is related to microscopic d-wave models in the presence of impurity scattering. The strong field dependence of the c-axis...

A sensitive polarization modulation technique uses photoelastic modulation and heterodyne detection to simultaneously measure the Faraday rotation and induced ellipticity in light transmitted by semiconducting and metallic samples. The frequencies measured are in the midinfrared and correspond to the spectral lines of a CO2 laser. The measured temperature range is continuous and extends from 35...

Using numerical simulations of magnetically interacting vortices in disordered layered superconductors we obtain the static vortex phase diagram as a function of magnetic field and temperature. For increasing field or temperature, we find a transition from ordered straight vortices to disordered decoupled vortices. This transition is associated with a peak effect in the critical current. For sa...

One of the long-standing questions in study high-${T}_{c}$ cuprate superconductors has been understanding nature boundary between strange metal phase and so-called pseudogap phase, which is a precursor to superconductivity. Testing for possible symmetry breaking transition through that boundary, detailed photogalvanic effect along set crystallographic axes BSCCO reveals state with broken invers...