Highly anisotropic but nodeless gap from a valence-fluctuation pairing mechanism [electronic resource].
- Published:
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1993.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description:
- Pages: (5 pages) : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States. Department of Energy
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information - Access Online:
- www.osti.gov
- Summary:
- We have refined and quantitatively explored a valence-fluctuation pairing mechanism, the finite-U mechanism introduced by Newns. This can provide an s-like (nodeless) gap. We use an Anderson-lattice Hamiltonian, with realistic parameter values derived from photoemission and BIS data. The Landau-Luttinger quasiparticle spectrum and the pairing interaction are obtained from a many-body variational formalism. Adequate pairing attraction is obtained, together with band narrowing (mass enhancement) and an extremely short coherence length, in reasonable agreement with experiment. These fully self-consistent results were obtained with an isotropic approximation to the band structure of a single CuO[sub 2] plane. Now, using a simplified treatment for a more realistic band structure, we find that the gap has strong in-plane anisotropy, although it should probably still remain nodeless. This conclusion is consistent with a variety of data.
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1993.
"la-ur-93-1088"
" conf-930367--1"
"DE93010738"
Conference on spectroscopies in novel superconductors, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 17-19 Mar 1993.
Brandow, B.H. - Funding Information:
- W-7405-ENG-36
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