Leadbeater, M and Lambert, Colin (1996) Symmetry breaking in the tunnelling conductance of a superconducting vortex. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 8 (24). L345-L352. ISSN 0953-8984
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Recent STM experiments on c-axis tunnelling into a vortex core of YBCO have yielded a sub-gap differential conductance which is not invariant under a reversal of the applied bias. By computing the differential conductance G(E) of a normal-superconducting contact to all orders in the tunnelling strength, we predict that in the absence of open channels in the superconductor, G(E) is necessarily an even function of E and that an asymmetric current-voltage characteristic implies the existence of propagating bound-states within the vortex core.