214 research outputs found
Higher anisotropic d-wave symmetry in cuprate superconductors
We derive a pair potential from tight binding further neighbours attraction
that leads to superconducting gap symmetry similar to that of the
phenomenological spin fluctuation theory of high temperature superconductors
(Monthoux, Balatsky, Pines, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 67}, 3448). We show that
higher anisotropic d-wave than the simpliest d-wave symmetry is one of the
important ingredients responsible for higher BCS characteristic ratio.Comment: Latex 5 pages, 3 figures attached, Journal Ref. : Journal of Physics
C, Vol. 11, issue 30, L371-L377 (1999
D-wave Bose-Einstein condensation and the London penetration depth in superconducting cuprates
We show that bipolaron formation leads to a d-wave Bose-Einstein condensate
in cuprates. It is the bipolaron energy dispersion rather than a particular
pairing interaction which is responsible for the d-wave symmetry. The unusual
low-temperature dependence of the magnetic field penetration depth in cuprates
is explained by the localisation of bosons in the random potential. The
temperature dependence of the penetration depth is linear with positive or
negative slope depending on the random field profile.Comment: 4 pages (RevTeX), 4 figure
Interplay among critical temperature, hole content, and pressure in the cuprate superconductors
Within a BCS-type mean-field approach to the extended Hubbard model, a
nontrivial dependence of T_c on the hole content per unit CuO_2 is recovered,
in good agreement with the celebrated non-monotonic universal behaviour at
normal pressure. Evaluation of T_c at higher pressures is then made possible by
the introduction of an explicit dependence of the tight-binding band and of the
carrier concentration on pressure P. Comparison with the known experimental
data for underdoped Bi2212 allows to single out an `intrinsic' contribution to
d T_c / d P from that due to the carrier concentration, and provides a
remarkable estimate of the dependence of the inter-site coupling strength on
the lattice scale.Comment: REVTeX 8 pages, including 5 embedded PostScript figures; other
required macros included; to be published in Phys. Rev. B (vol. 54
Kinetic Inductance and Penetration Depth of Thin Superconducting Films Measured by THz Pulse Spectroscopy
We measure the transmission of THz pulses through thin films of YBCO at
temperatures between 10K and 300K. The pulses possess a useable bandwidth
extending from 0.1 -- 1.5 THz (3.3 cm^-1 -- 50 cm^-1). Below T_c we observe
pulse reshaping caused by the kinetic inductance of the superconducting charge
carriers. From transmission data, we extract values of the London penetration
depth as a function of temperature, and find that it agrees well with a
functional form (\lambda(0)/\lambda(T))^2 = 1 - (T/T_c)^{\alpha}, where
\lambda(0) = 148 nm, and \alpha = 2. *****Figures available upon request*****Comment: 7 Pages, LaTe
Phase transition from a to superconductor
We study the phase transition from a to
superconductor using the tight-binding model of two-dimensional cuprates. As
the temperature is lowered past the critical temperature , first a superconducting phase is created. With further reduction of
temperature, the phase is created at temperature
. We study the temperature dependencies of the order parameter,
specific heat and spin susceptibility in these mixed-angular-momentum states on
square lattice and on a lattice with orthorhombic distortion. The
above-mentioned phase transitions are identified by two jumps in specific heat
at and .Comment: Latex file, 5 pages, 6 postscript figures, Accepted in Physical
Review
Pairing symmetry and long range pair potential in a weak coupling theory of superconductivity
We study the superconducting phase with two component order parameter
scenario, such as, , where . We show, that in absence of orthorhombocity, the usual
does not mix with usual symmetry gap in an anisotropic band
structure. But the symmetry does mix with the usual d-wave for . The d-wave symmetry with higher harmonics present in it also mixes with
higher order extended wave symmetry. The required pair potential to obtain
higher anisotropic and extended s-wave symmetries, is derived by
considering longer ranged two-body attractive potential in the spirit of tight
binding lattice. We demonstrate that the dominant pairing symmetry changes
drastically from to like as the attractive pair potential is obtained
from longer ranged interaction. More specifically, a typical length scale of
interaction , which could be even/odd multiples of lattice spacing leads
to predominant wave symmetry. The role of long range interaction on
pairing symmetry has further been emphasized by studying the typical interplay
in the temperature dependencies of these higher order and wave pairing
symmetries.Comment: Revtex 8 pages, 7 figures embeded in the text, To appear in PR
Orthorhombicity mixing of s- and d- gap components in without involving the chains
Momentum decoupling develops when forward scattering dominates the pairing
interaction and implies tendency for decorrelation between the physical
behavior in the various regions of the Fermi surface. In this regime it is
possible to obtain anisotropic s- or d-wave superconductivity even with
isotropic pairing scattering. We show that in the momentum decoupling regime
the distortion of the planes is enough to explain the experimental
reports for s- mixing in the dominantly d-wave gap of . In the
case of spin fluctuations mediated pairing instead, a large part of the
condensate must be located in the chains in order to understand the
experiments.Comment: LATEX file and 3 Postscript figure
Microwave Electrodynamics of Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors
We report microwave cavity perturbation measurements of the temperature
dependence of the penetration depth, lambda(T), and conductivity, sigma(T) of
Pr_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4-delta} (PCCO) crystals, as well as parallel-plate
resonator measurements of lambda(T) in PCCO thin films. Penetration depth
measurements are also presented for a Nd_{2-x}Ce_{x}CuO_{4-delta} (NCCO)
crystal. We find that delta-lambda(T) has a power-law behavior for T<T_c/3, and
conclude that the electron-doped cuprate superconductors have nodes in the
superconducting gap. Furthermore, using the surface impedance, we have derived
the real part of the conductivity, sigma_1(T), below T_c and found a behavior
similar to that observed in hole-doped cuprates.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to Physical Review Letters
revised version: new figures, sample characteristics added to table, general
clarification give
d-Wave Model for Microwave Response of High-Tc Superconductors
We develop a simple theory of the electromagnetic response of a d- wave
superconductor in the presence of potential scatterers of arbitrary s-wave
scattering strength and inelastic scattering by antiferromagnetic spin
fluctuations. In the clean London limit, the conductivity of such a system may
be expressed in "Drude" form, in terms of a frequency-averaged relaxation time.
We compare predictions of the theory with recent data on YBCO and BSSCO
crystals and on YBCO films. While fits to penetration depth measurements are
promising, the low temperature behavior of the measured microwave conductivity
appears to be in disagreement with our results. We discuss implications for
d-wave pairing scenarios in the cuprate superconductors.Comment: 33 pages, plain TeX including all macros. 16 uuencoded, compressed
postscript figures are appended at the en
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