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Charged Vortices in High Temperature Superconductors

D. I. Khomskii, A. Freimuth

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.1384 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

It is argued that in the mixed state of a type II superconductor, because of the difference of the chemical potential in a superconducting versus normal state, the vortex cores may become charged. The extra electron density is estimated. The extra charge contributes to the dynamics of the vortices; in particular, it can explain in certain cases the change of the sign of the Hall coefficient below Tc frequently observed in the high temperature superconductors.

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