scholarly journals An Analysis of Strong Coupling in the High Tc Superconductors

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
J. H. Turner
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Strong Coupling ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
High Tc Superconductors ◽  
High Tc ◽  
Cubic Symmetry

A new McMillan formula is assembled for the High Temperature Superconductors that evidences strong coupling in these materials. The McMillan-Hopfield parameter is calculated in each case, in addition to the Bergmann and Rainer enhancement frequency. The cubic symmetry of the CuO layers and the lattice cohesion and oxygen presence are suggested reasons for the effect.

THE MULTILAYERED HIGH Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS; THE JOSEPHSON MODEL OF WEAK LINKS

1995 ◽  
Vol 09 (21) ◽  
pp. 2811-2820
Author(s):  
VALERY A. CHERENKOV
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
High Tc Superconductors ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Multilayered Structures ◽  
High Tc ◽  
Stimulation Of

The multilayered (N-S(D)-N)-types structures have been observed: there are the traditional Niobium low-temperature superconductors and new high-temperature superconductors. The main attention had been directed to the anisotropy, defectively and the stimulation of the superconductivity in the multilayered structures.

Structural and Superconducting Properties of RE1 - 2xPrxCaxSr0.8Ba1.2Cu3O7 - δ (RE = Er and Gd) High Tc Superconductors

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (13) ◽  
pp. 2609-2622 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Charoenthai ◽  
P. Winotai ◽  
R. Suryanarayanan ◽  
I. M. Tang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Size Effect ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Superconducting Properties ◽  
High Tc Superconductors ◽  
High Tc ◽  
Oxygen Annealing ◽  
Ion Size

We report here on the structural and superconducting properties of RE 1 - 2x Pr x Ca x Sr 0.8 Ba 1.2 Cu 3 O 7 - δ (RE = Er and Gd, 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.2) high temperature superconductors. The transition temperature (Tc) of these compounds decreases when the Pr and Ca concentrations are increased. At constant Pr and Ca concentrations, the Tc of Er 1 - 2x Pr x Ca x Sr 0.8 Ba 1.2 Cu 3 O 7 - δ superconductor system is higher than that observed for the Gd 1 - 2x Pr x Ca x Sr 0.8 Ba 1.2 Cu 3 O 7 - δ system. For the Gd 0.8 Pr 0.1 Ca 0.1 Sr 0.8 Ba 1.2 Cu 3 O 7 - δ sample, after heating in argon followed by oxygen annealing, the orthorhombicity increases accompanied by 10 K increase in Tc. These results show that though our data indicate an ion-size effect, the Tc suppression rate dTc/dx depends very much on the heat treatment adopted to prepare the samples.

SEPARATED SPIN AND CHARGE DEGREES OF FREEDOM IN HIGH-Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (01n03) ◽  
pp. 193-197
Author(s):  
L. KRUSIN-ELBAUM ◽  
T. SHIBAUCHI ◽  
G. BLATTER
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Fermi Surface ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
High Tc Superconductors ◽  
Critical Fields ◽  
High Tc

Recent Nernst and interlayer transport experiments in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+y (BSCCO) high temperature superconductors report hugely different limiting magnetic fields. We demonstrate that both fields convert to the same pseudogap energy scale T* upon transformation as orbital and Zeeman critical fields, respectively. We suggest a consistent interpretation of this finding based on separation of spin and charge degrees of freedom residing in different regions of a truncated Fermi surface.

THE SURFACE IMPEDANCE OF HIGH Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS

1989 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. CARINI ◽  
L. DRABECK ◽  
G. GRÜNER
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Surface Impedance ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Qualitative Agreement ◽  
Surface Resistance ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
High Tc Superconductors ◽  
High Tc

Recent experiments on the surface impedance of the high temperature superconductors are summarized. The overall temperature dependence of the penetration depth is in broad qualitative agreement with conventional pairing, but with an anomolous power law behavior observed at low temperatures. The surface resistance is orders of magnitude larger than estimates based on the Mattis-Bardeen theory. One possibility is unconventional pairing, but structural inhomogenities are the most likely explanation for the experimental results.

What Can we Learn from Magnetization Experiments on HIGH-TC Superconductors? an Overview

1992 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Mixed State ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Critical Currents ◽  
High Tc Superconductors ◽  
High Tc ◽  
Convenient Means ◽  
Current Densities ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTMagnetization studies provide a facile and convenient means for investigating high temperature superconductors. This work provides an overview and some specific examples of the types of information attainable through magnetic experiments. Regimes to be discussed include the Meissner region with low applied magnetic fields; the mixed state in higher fields at high temperatures, where equilibrium superconductive properties are accessible; and the magnetically irreversible mixed state at lower temperatures, often with large critical current densities Jc. Generally, the critical currents in the last region are metastable. The associated flux creep phenomenon also provides insight into the materials problem of optimizing the pinning of vortices, in order to maximize Jc.

Electron-Doped High Tc Superconductors

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 60-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Brian Maple
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Superconductivity ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Charge Carriers ◽  
Critical Temperatures ◽  
High Tc ◽  
Prevailing View ◽  
Identical Crystal

Since the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in layered copper-oxide compounds in the latter part of 1986, an enormous amount of research has been carried out on these remarkable materials. Prior to 1989, the prevailing view was that the charge carriers responsible for superconductivity in these materials were holes that move through conducting CuO2 planes. The CuO2 planes are the basic building blocks of the crystal structures of all the presently known oxides with superconducting critical temperatures Tc greater than ~30 K. Recently, new superconducting materials have been discovered in Japan and the United States in which the charge carriers involved in the superconductivity appear to be electrons, rather than holes, that reside within the conducting CuO2 planes. These findings could have important implications regarding viable theories of high temperature superconductivity as well as strategies for finding new high temperature superconductors.The new electron-doped materials have the chemical formula Ln2-xMxCuO4-y and exhibit superconductivity with superconducting critical temperatures Tc as high as ~25 K for x ≍ 0.15 and y ≍ 0.02. Superconductivity has been discovered for M = Ce and Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm, and Eu, and for M = Th and Ln = Pr, Nd, and Sm. A related compound with the identical crystal structure, Nd2CuO4-x-y Fx, has also been found to display superconductivity withTc ≍ 25 K. Recently, it has been observed that superconductivity with Tc ≍ 25 K can even be induced in nonsuperconducting Nd2-xCexCuO4-y compounds by substituting Ga or In for Cu. Thus, it appears that the CuO2 planes can be doped with electrons, rendering the Ln2CuO4-y parent compounds metallic and superconducting, by substituting electron donor elements at sites within, as well as outside, the CuO2 planes; i.e., by substituting (1) Ce4+ or Th4+ ions for Ln3+ ions; (2) F1- ions for O2- ions; and (3) Ga3+ or In3+ ions for Cu2+ ions.

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