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The c axis optical conductivity of layered systems in the superconducting state
In this paper, we discuss the c axis optical conductivity Re [sigma_c(omega)]
in the high T_c superconductors, in the superconducting state. The basic
premise of this work is that electrons travelling along the c axis between
adjacent CuO_2 layers must pass through several intervening layers. In earlier
work we found that, for weak inter-layer coupling, it is preferable for
electrons to travel along the c axis by making a series of interband
transitions rather than to stay within a single (and very narrow) band.
Moreover, we found that many of the properties of the normal state optical
conductivity, including the pseudogap could be explained by interband
transitions. In this work we examine the effect of superconductivity on the
interband conductivity. We find that, while the onset of superconductivity is
clearly evident in the spectrum, there is no clear signature of the symmetry of
the superconducting order parameter.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Effect of nonlocal interactions on the disorder-induced zero-bias anomaly in the Anderson-Hubbard model
To expand the framework available for interpreting experiments on disordered
strongly correlated systems, and in particular to explore further the
strong-coupling zero-bias anomaly found in the Anderson-Hubbard model, we ask
how this anomaly responds to the addition of nonlocal electron-electron
interactions. We use exact diagonalization to calculate the single-particle
density of states of the extended Anderson-Hubbard model. We find that for weak
nonlocal interactions the form of the zero-bias anomaly is qualitatively
unchanged. The energy scale of the anomaly continues to be set by an effective
hopping amplitude renormalized by the nonlocal interaction. At larger values of
the nonlocal interaction strength, however, hopping ceases to be a relevant
energy scale and higher energy features associated with charge correlations
dominate the density of states.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure
Antimatter, Lorentz Symmetry, and Gravity
A brief introduction to the Standard-Model Extension (SME) approach to
testing CPT and Lorentz symmetry is provided. Recent proposals for tests with
antimatter are summarized, including gravitational and spectroscopic tests.Comment: Presented at the 12th International Conference on Low Energy
Antiproton Physics, Kanazawa Japan, March 6-11, 2016, Accepted for
publication in JPS Conference Proceeding
Extinction of impurity resonances in large-gap regions of inhomogeneous d-wave superconductors
Impurity resonances observed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy in the
superconducting state have been used to deduce properties of the underlying
pure state. Here we study a longstanding puzzle associated with these
measurements, the apparent extinction of these resonances for Ni and Zn
impurities in large-gap regions of the inhomogeneous BSCCO superconductor. We
calculate the effect of order parameter and hopping suppression near the
impurity site, and find that these two effects are sufficient to explain the
missing resonances in the case of Ni. There are several possible scenarios for
the extinction of the Zn resonances, which we discuss in turn; in addition, we
propose measurements which could distinguish among them.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Disorder and chain superconductivity in YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}
The effects of chain disorder on superconductivity in YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}
are discussed within the context of a proximity model. Chain disorder causes
both pair-breaking and localization. The hybridization of chain and plane
wavefunctions reduces the importance of localization, so that the transport
anisotropy remains large in the presence of a finite fraction of
oxygen vacancies. Penetration depth and specific heat measurements probe the
pair-breaking effects of chain disorder, and are discussed in detail at the
level of the self-consistent T-matrix approximation. Quantitative agreement
with these experiments is found when chain disorder is present.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRB rapid communication
Effect of Interband Transitions on the c axis Penetration Depth of Layered Superconductors
The electromagnetic response of a system with two planes per unit cell
involves, in addition to the usual intraband contribution, an added interband
term. These transitions affect the temperature dependence and the magnitude of
the zero temperature c-axis penetration depth. When the interplane hopping is
sufficiently small, the interband transitions dominate the low temperature
behaviour of the penetration depth which then does not reflect the linear
temperature dependence of the intraband term and in comparison becomes quite
flat even for a d-wave gap. It is in this regime that the pseudogap was found
in our previous normal state calculations of the c-axis conductivity, and the
effects are connected.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Infrared divergence in QED at finite temperature
We consider various ways of treating the infrared divergence which appears in
the dynamically generated fermion mass, when the transverse part of the photon
propagator in N flavour at finite temperature is included in the
Matsubara formalism. This divergence is likely to be an artefact of taking into
account only the leading order term in the expansion when we
calculate the photon propagator and is handled here phenomenologically by means
of an infrared cutoff. Inserting both the longitudinal and the transverse part
of the photon propagator in the Schwinger-Dyson equation we find the dependence
of the dynamically generated fermion mass on the temperature and the cutoff
parameters. It turns out that consistency with certain statistical physics
arguments imposes conditions on the cutoff parameters. For parameters in the
allowed range of values we find that the ratio is approximately 6, consistently with previous calculations which
neglected the transverse photon contribution.Comment: 37 pages, 12 figures, typos corrected, references added, Introduction
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Effect of Proximity Coupling of Chains and Planes on the Penetration Depth Anisotropy in Y_1Ba_2Cu_3O_7
We calculate the penetration depth in the , and
directions for a simple model of YBaCuO. In this model there are
two layers---representing a CuO plane and a CuO chain---per unit cell.
There is a BCS--like pairing (both wave and wave are considered)
interaction localised in the CuO planes. The CuO chains become
superconducting at temperatures lower than because of their proximity to
the planes, and there is an induced gap in the chains. Since the temperature
dependence of the penetration depth in the direction (along the chains) is
sensitive to the size of the induced gap, the difference between the shapes of
the penetration depth curves in the and directions reveals a great deal
about the nature of the condensate in the chains. We find that in our proximity
model there are always regions of the chain Fermi surface on which the induced
gap is much smaller than , so that the temperature dependence of
is always different than that of . Experimental
observations of the of the anisotropy show nearly identical temperature
dependences. The main result of our paper, then, is that a simple proximity
model in which the pairing interaction is localized to the planes, and the
planes are coherently coupled to the chains cannot account for the superfluid
on the chains.Comment: 24 Pages, Submitted to Phys. Rev.
An "Accidental" Symmetry Operator for the Dirac Equation in the Coulomb Potential
On the basis of the generalization of the theorem about K-odd operators (K is
the Dirac's operator), certain linear combination is constructed, which appears
to commute with the Dirac Hamiltonian for Coulomb field. This operator
coincides with the Johnson and Lippmann operator and is intimately connected to
the familiar Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector. Our approach guarantees not only
derivation of Johnson-Lippmann operator, but simultaneously commutativity with
the Dirac Hamiltonian follows.Comment: 6 page
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