Nonlocal conductivity in high-temperature superconductors

S. J. Phillipson; M. A. Moore; T. Blum

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.57.5512

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Nonlocal conductivity in high-temperature superconductors

S. J. Phillipson, M. A. Moore, T. Blum

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.5512 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We examine nonlocal conductivity in high-temperature superconductors from a phenomenological point of view. One wants to deduce the properties of the conductivity, especially its inherent length scales, from the transport data. Although this is a challenging inverse problem, complicated further by the experimental data not being completely self-consistent, we have made some progress. We find that if a certain form for the conductivity is postulated then one requires positive “viscosity” coefficients to reproduce some of the experimental results. We are able to show that the effects of surfaces on the conductivity are likely to be important and draw comparisons with the treatment of the surface within the hydrodynamic approach put forth by Huse and Majumdar. We also develop an approximation scheme for the conductivity which is more robust than the hydrodynamic one, since it is stable for both positive and negative viscosity coefficients, and discuss the results obtained using it.

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Formula	Reported Tc (K)	Pressure (GPa)	Type
YBa2Cu3O7-δ Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown
Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown