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1Institut für Theoretische Physik and Center for Collective Quantum Phenomena, Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Abstract:
We demonstrate that in a d-wave superconductor the bulk nonlinear Meissner effect is dominated by a surface effect due to Andreev bound states at low temperatures. The contribution of this surface effect to the nonlinear response coefficient follows a 1/T3 law with the opposite sign compared to the bulk 1/T behavior. The crossover from bulk dominated behavior to surface dominated behavior occurs at a temperature of T/Tc∼1/square root(κ). We present an approximate analytical calculation, which supports our numerical calculations and provides a qualitative understanding of the effect. The effect can be probed by intermodulation distortion experiments.
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