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Bose-Einstein condensation in quasi-2D systems: applications to high Tc superconductivity
We describe high-Tc superconductivity in layered materials within a BCS
theory as a BEC of massless-like Cooper pairons satisfying a linear dispersion
relation, and propagating within quasi-2D layers of finite width defined by the
charge distribution about the CuO_2 planes. We obtain a closed formula for the
critical temperature, Tc, that depends on the layer width, the binding energy
of Cooper's pairs, and the average in-plane penetration depth. This formula
reasonably reproduces empirical values of superconducting transition
temperatures for several different cuprate materials near the optimal doping
regime, as well as for YBCO films with different doping degrees.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Is room-temperature superconductivity with phonons possible?
By recognizing the vital importance of two-hole Cooper pairs (CPs) in
addition to the usual two-electron ones in a strongly-interacting many-electron
system, the concept of CPs was re-examined with striking conclusions. Based on
this, Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) theory has been generalized to include
not boson-boson interactions (also neglected in BCS theory) but rather
boson-fermion (BF)interaction vertices reminiscent of the Frohlich
electron-phonon interaction in metals. Unlike BCS theory, the GBEC model is not
a mean-field theory restricted to weak-coupling as it can be diagonalized
exactly. In weak coupling it reproduces the BCS condensation energy. Each kind
of CP is responsible for only half the condensation energy. The GBEC theory
reduces to all the old known statistical theories as special cases including
the so-called "BCS-Bose crossover" picture which in turn generalizes BCS theory
by not assuming that the electron chemical potential equals the Fermi energy.
Indeed, a BCS condensate is precisely the weak-coupling limit of a GBE
condensate with equal numbers of both types of CPs. With feasible Cooper/BCS
model interelectonic interaction parameter values, and even without BF
interactions, the GBEC theory yields transition temperatures [including
room-temperature superconductivity (RTSC)] substantially higher than the BCS
ceiling of around 45K, without relying on non-phonon dynamics involving
excitons, plasmons, magnons or otherwise purely-electronic mechanisms.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures, Mini-course delivered at "X Training Course in
the Physics of Correlated-Electron Systems and High Tc Superconductors"
Salerno, Italy, 3-14 October, 200
STRATEGY-PROOF MECHANISMS WITH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC GOODS
In this paper we develop a differentiable approach to deal with incentives in a, possibly small, subset of a general domain of preferences in economies with one public and one private good. We show that, for two agents, there is no social rule which is efficient, nondictatorial and strategy-proof. For the case of more agents the same result occurs when nondictatorship is replaced by Individual Rationality or by Envy-Freeness. Journal of Economic LiteratureStrategy-proofness, public goods economies, differentiable mechanisms
Co-movements of international equity markets: a large-scale factor model approach
We analyze the comovements of a set of country-sector indexes from 45 different countries studying their factor decomposition based on a PCA analysis for a large cross section framework. We derive a measure to analyze the comovements over time based on the part of variance explained by the main extracted factors and we apply the method from Bai and Ng to study the relevant number of factors. We conduct rolling estimations for the period 1994-2006 focusing on the set of emerging markets. We show that both, emerging and developed equity markets experienced increasing comovements over the period of study, reflecting the integration of those markets. We have estimated that the main factor accounts for 30\% and 20\% of the whole variation of each data set. We use the comovements to gauge integration in two different ways, both indicating higher integration for developed markets. Finally, we relate the comovements to a measure of diversification and we conclude that it is only possible to reduce 85\% of the average risk of an equity index by diversification at the end of the period compared to 95\% at the beginning for the set of emerging markets.Market Integration, Equity markets, International portfolio diversification, Emerging Markets, Principal Components Analysis, Factor Analysis
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