Abstract
We have performed scanning tunneling spectroscopy imaging of vortices in ${\mathrm{MgB}}_{2}$ with both the tunneling current and the applied field perpendicular to the crystalline c axis. This revealed a well ordered vortex lattice with a relatively low anisotropy of $1.19\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.04.$ This is significantly below the upper-critical-field anisotropy, but in good agreement with theoretical predictions for the penetration depth anisotropy, which at low fields is expected to be dominated by the $\ensuremath{\pi}$ band. The value of the anisotropy is smaller than estimated from small-angle neutron-scattering measurement.
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