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Fermi-liquid theory for anisotropic superconductors

M. B. Walker

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.134515 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

This paper develops a Fermi-liquid theory for superconductors with anisotropic Fermi surfaces, Fermi-liquid interactions, and energy gaps. For d-wave superconductors, the Fermi-liquid interaction effects are found to be classifiable into strong and negligible renormalizaton effects, for symmetric and antisymmetric combinations of the energies of k↑ and −k↓ quasiparticles, respectively. Furthermore, the leading clean-limit temperature-dependent correction to the superfluid density in a d-wave superconductor is found to be renormalized by a Fermi velocity (or mass) renormalization effect. The question is raised of whether or not the penetration depth in the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+xa can be accounted for with physically acceptable parameters within the framework of a quasiparticle model. Fermi-liquid corrections to the spin susceptibility and to the zero-energy magnetic-field-induced density of states are also evaluated.

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YBa2Cu3O6+x

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