D-wave states

We have analyzed the thermodynamic, magnetic and ultrasound attenuation data on oriented saaiples of the hlgh-T superconductors within the context of anisotropic Glnzburg-LSndau theory for coupled, even-parity superconducting states. We are able to present a consistent Interpretation of the data In terms of the coexistence of a quasi-two-dimensional d-wave state, with critical temperature T. - T and a more Isotropic mixed (s+d)-wave state with critical tempertaure T < T We predict the possibility of a "kink" in the temperature dependence of the lower critical field near 0 9T, which should be tested by experiments on single crystals. 

You can use Cl to predict electronic spectra. Since the Cl wave function provides groun d state an d excited state energies, you can obtain electron ic absorption frequen cies from the dlfferen ces between the energy of the ground state and the excited states. 

Fig. 6.9. Corrugation amplitudes of a hexagonal close-packed surface. Solid curve, theoretical corrugation amplitude for an s and a d,- tip state, on a close-packed metal surface with a=2.88 A and 4>=3.5 eV. The orbitals on each metal atom on the sample is assumed to be 1 i-type. Measured STM corrugation amplitudes are from the data of Wintterlin et al. (1989). The first-principle calculation of Al(lll) is taken from Mednick and Kleinman (1980). The corrugation amplitude for a 4-wave tip state is more than one order of magnitude smaller then the experimental corrugation. (Reproduced from Chen, 1991, with permission.)...

Fig. 61. Magnetic field dependence of the specific heat contribution y(H) of the vortex core electrons in the mixed state for Y(Nio.7sPto.25)2B2C. The dashed line is a fit according to eq. (8) with /) = 0.17, the solid line corresponds to the y(H)

Flat metal plates and cylinders driven by tangentially incident detonation waves were examined by Hoskin et al (Ref 5) using a 2-D steady state characteristic code. Their computations for plates or cylinders indicate that metal compressibility has little effect on the terminal velocity imparted to the metal by the expl. Thus the Gurney treatment is found to give essentially the same terminal states as their more sophisticated characteristics computation. This... 

Figure 2. The imaginary part of the spin susceptibility at Q in the d-wave superconducting (a,b) and normal (c,d) states. Curves show the results of our calculations...

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