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c Axis Superfluid Response of Copper Oxide Superconductors

T. Xiang, J. M. Wheatley

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4632 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

A novel interplay between d-wave superconducting order parameter symmetry and the underlying Cu 3d orbital based electronic structure of copper oxides leads to a striking anisotropy in the superfluid response of these systems. In clean tetragonal materials the c axis penetration depth increases as T5 at low temperature, in contrast to linear T behavior in the ab plane. Disorder is a relevant perturbation which causes all components of the superfluid response to depend quadratically on temperature at low temperature. However, the crossover temperature scale from the intrinsic d-wave behavior to the disorder dominated behavior for the in-plane response may be different from that for the out-plane response.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
La2-xSrxCuO4

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YBa2Cu3O7-δ

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Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x

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HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+x

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