Symmetry and Heterogeneity in High Temperature Superconductors / Edition 1

by Antonio Bianconi

Overview

The object of this book is the quantum mechanism that allows the macroscopic quantum coherence of a superconducting condensate to resist to the attacks of high temperature. Solution to this fundamental problem of modern physics is needed for the design of room temperature superconductors, for controlling the decoherence effects in the quantum computers and for the understanding of a possible role of quantum coherence in living matter that is debated today in quantum biophysics. The recent experimental results on nanoscale phase separation and the two component scenario in high T_c in doped cuprate and the lower symmetry in the superconducting elements at high pressure area presented. The compelling evidence for multiband superconductivity in MgB₂ that provides the simplest system for testing the high T_c theories, and plays the same role as atomic hydrogen for the development of the quantum mechanics in the twenties, is one of the main points of the book. The multiband superconductivity enhances the critical temperature from the low T_c range T_c < 19K, to the high temperature range, T_c = 40K. The heterogeneous structure, the superlattice of superconducting layers, determines the disparity and different spatial location of the Bloch wave functions of electrons at the Fermi level that provides in superconductivity the clean limit. The chemical potential can be tuned by atomic substitutions without increasing inelastic single electron interband scattering. The Feshbach shape resonance in the exchange-like off-diagonal interband pairing term, as predicted since 1993, appears to be the mechanism for evading temperature decoherence effects and enhancing the critical temperature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402039881
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	02/10/2006
Series:	NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry , #214
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Electronic and Exchange-Like Pairing Scenarios.- Symmetry and Higher Superconductivity in the Lower Elements.- Feshbach Shape Resonances in Multiband High Tc Superconductors.- Modelling Cuprate Gaps in a Composite Two-Band Model.- Multi-Gap Superconductivity on MgB2.- Anomalous Electron-Phonon Interaction.- ELectron-Lattice Coupling in the Cuprates.- Symmetry Breaking, Non-Adiabatic Electron-Phonon Coupling and Nuclear Kinetic Effect on Superconductivity of MgB2.- Phase Separation and Two Components Cuprates.- Microscopic Phase Separation and Two Type of Quasiparticles in Lightly Doped La2-xSrxCuO4 Observed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.- Phase Separation in Cuprates Induced by Doping, Hydrostatic Pressure or Atomic Substitution.- Structural Symmetry, Elastic Compatibility, and the Intrinsic Heterogeneity of Complex Oxides.- A Case of Complex Matter: Coexistence of Multiple Phase Separations in Cuprates.- Anisotropy of the Critical Current Density in High Quality YBa2Cu3O7-x Thin Film.- Symmetry of the Condensate.- Symmetry of High-Tc Superconductors.- Evidence for d-Wave Order Parameter Symmetry in Bi-2212 from Experiments on Interlayer Tunneling.- Exotic Superconductivity.- Electronic State in Co-Oxide-Similar to Cuprates?.- Oxide Superconductivity.- Superconductivity Versus Antiferromagnetic SDW Order in the Cuprates and Related Systems.