Rotation of Triangular Vortex Lattice in the Two-Band Superconductor MgB

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To identify the contributions of the multiband nature and the anisotropy of a microscopic electronic structure to a macroscopic vortex lattice morphology, we develop a method based on the Eilenberger theory near H_{\text{c2}} combined with the first-principles band calculation to estimate the stable vortex lattice configuration. For a typical two-band superconductor MgB<inf>2</inf>, successive transitions of vortex lattice orientation that have been observed recently by small angle neutron scattering [Das et al.: Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 167001] are explained by the characteristic field-dependence of two-band superconductivity and the competition of sixfold anisotropy between the \sigma- and \pi-bands. The reentrant transition at low temperature reflects the Fermi velocity anisotropy of the \sigma-band.
2013-06-15