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Microwave conductivity of d-wave superconductors with extended impurities
We investigate the influence of extended scatterers on the finite temperature
and finite frequency microwave conductivity of d-wave superconductors. For this
purpose we generalize a previous treatment by Durst and Lee, which is based on
a nodal approximation of the quasiparticle excitations and scattering
processes, and apply it to the analysis of experimental spectra of YBCO-123 and
BSCCO-2212. For YBCO, we find that accounting for a slight spatial extension of
the strong scattering in-plane defects improves the fit of the low temperature
microwave conductivity to experiment. With respect to BSCCO we conclude that it
is necessary to include a large concentration of weak-to-intermediate strength
extended scatterers, which we attribute to the out-of plane disorder introduced
by doping. These findings for BSCCO are consistent with similar analyses of the
normal state ARPES spectra and of STM spectra in the superconducting state,
where an enhanced forward scattering has been inferred as well.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figure
Origin of Gap Anisotropy in Spin Fluctuation Models of the Fe-pnictides
We discuss the large gap anisotropy found for the A1g (s-wave) state in RPA
spin-fluctuation and functional renormalization group calculations and show how
the simple arguments leading to isotropic sign-switched s-wave states in these
systems need to be supplemented by a consideration of pair scattering within
Fermi surface sheets and between the individual electron sheets as well. In
addition, accounting for the orbital makeup of the states on the Fermi surface
is found to be crucial.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Dopant-modulated pair interaction in cuprate superconductors
Comparison of recent experimental STM data with single-impurity and
many-impurity Bogoliubov-de Gennes calculations strongly suggests that random
out-of-plane dopant atoms in cuprates modulate the pair interaction locally.
This type of disorder is crucial to understanding the nanoscale electronic
structure inhomogeneity observed in BSCCO-2212, and can reproduce observed
correlations between the positions of impurity atoms and various aspects of the
local density of states such as the gap magnitude and the height of the
coherence peaks. Our results imply that each dopant atom modulates the pair
interaction on a length scale of order one lattice constant.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Theory of Thermal Conductivity in YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}
We calculate the electronic thermal conductivity in a d-wave superconductor,
including both the effect of impurity scattering and inelastic scattering by
antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations. We analyze existing experiments,
particularly with regard to the question of the relative importance of
electronic and phononic contributions to the heat current, and to the influence
of disorder on low-temperature properties. We find that phonons dominate heat
transport near T_c, but that electrons are responsible for most of the peak
observed in clean samples, in agreement with a recent analysis of Krishana et
al. In agreement with recent data on YBa_2(Cu_1-xZn_x)_3O_7-\delta the peak
position is found to vary nonmonotonically with disorder.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
Local modulations of the spin-fluctuation mediated pairing interaction by impurities in d-wave superconductors
We present a self-consistent real space formulation of spin-fluctuation
mediated d-wave pairing. By calculating all relevant inhomogeneous spin and
charge susceptibilities in real space within the random phase approximation
(RPA), we obtain the effective pairing interaction and study its spatial
dependence near both local potential and hopping impurities. A remarkably large
enhancement of the pairing interaction may be obtained near the impurity site.
We discuss the relevance of our result to inhomogeneities observed by scanning
tunneling spectroscopy on the surface of cuprate superconductors.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Control of vegetative growth of grapevine shoots by ethylene-releasing substances Conditions and sites of action
Grapevine shoots of the cvs. Muscat Hamburg and Perlette were treated with two commercial ethylene-releasing substances, Ethrel (2-chloroethylphosphonic acid) and Alsol (2Tchloroethyl-tris-(2-methoxyethoxy)silane) at acid and neutral pH. Ethrel caused significant shoot growth inhibition, Alsol had no effect on the growth rate. Ethrel was more active at pH 6.9 than at pH 2.2, and its uptake was significantly higher at the low pH. In many cases the apical meristem of Ethrel-treated shoots was damaged. The relation of uptake to growth response was determined. Leaf blade treatments alone did not inhibit the growth of the apex.Die Kontrolle des vegetativen Wachstums von Rebtrieben durch Äthylen-liefernde Substanzen Einwirkungsbedingungen und -orteTriebe der Rebsorten Muskat Hamburg und Perlette wurden mit zwei Äthylen-freisetzenden Handelspräparaten behandelt: Ethrel (2-Chloräthylphosphonsäure) und Alsol (2-Chloräthyl-tris-(2-methoxyäthoxy)silan) bei saurem und neutralem pH. Ethrel verursachte eine signifikante Hemmung des Triebwachstums, Alsol hatte keinen Einfluß auf die Wachstumsgeschwindigkeit. Ethrel war bei pH 6,9 wirksamer als bei pH 2,2; im niedrigen pH-Bereich war seine Aufnahme signifikant erhöht. In den behandelten Sprossen war vielfach das apikale Meristem geschädigt. Die Beziehung zwischen Substanzaufnahme und Wachstumsreaktion wurde bestimmt. Bei alleiniger Blattbehandlung war das Wachstum der Triebspitze nicht gehemmt
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