1st Edition

Spectroscopy of High-Tc Superconductors A Theoretical View

Edited By N.M. Plakida Copyright 2003

    Despite ten years of intensive research, many questions remain unanswered concerning the nature of the electronic structure (Fermi vs non-Fermi liquid) and mechanisms of superconductivity.

    Spectroscopy of High-Tc Superconductors, A Theoretical View provides a current, comprehensive review of the experimental results and theoretical interpretations concerning elementary excitation spectra (electronic, phononic, charge, and spin fluctuations) in high-Tc superconductors (HTSC). It discusses accepted microscopic models that describe the electronic structure of the copper-oxide plane - the three-band model, the generalized Emery model, the one-band Hubbard model, different kinds of the t-J model, and the regular Kondo-lattice model - and compares them with ARPES experiments.

    Leading Russian researchers also consider experimental results obtained by Raman scattering both by phonons and electronic excitations, including magnetic excitations in antiferromagnets in the normal phase, on almost all the types of superconducting cuprates. The results are treated theoretically with the emphasis on features thought to be related to superconductivity. The book also gives an account of the properties of the microwave surface impedance and complex conductivity as functions of temperature common for high-quality single crystals: YBCO, BSCCO, TBCCO, and BKBO. The basics of the muon method and a review of experimental results for superconducting states of different HTSC-compounds are also presented.

    By offering a thorough examination of current research in the field, this book will appeal to advanced students and researchers working in superconductivity and theoretical condensed matter physics.

    Spin Polaron in the Cuprate Superconductors: Interpretation of the ARPES Results, A.F. Barabanov, L.A. Maksimov, and A.V. Mikkeyenkov
    Introduction
    The Main Idea of the Local Spin-Polaron Concept in Strongly Correlated Models
    The Spherically Symmetric Approach for the Frustrated Two-dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
    The Local Spin Polaron Motion
    From Local to Complex Spin Polaron
    The Spin-polaron Beyond the Mean-Field Approximation
    Summary
    Acknowledgements
    References

    What Can One Learn from Raman Spectra of High-Temperature Superconductors?, E.Ya. Sherman, O.V. Misochko, and P. Lemmens
    Basics of Light Scattering
    Phonon Raman Scattering in the Cuprates
    Electronic Raman Scattering in the Cuprates
    Problems and Conclusions
    Acknowledgements
    References

    In-plane Microwave Response of High-Tc Single Crystals: Experiment and Theory, M.R. Trunin and A.A. Golubov
    Introduction
    Electrodynamics of Superconductors
    Experimental Procedure
    Experimental Results
    Modified Two-fluid Model
    On the Way to a Microscopic Theory
    Conclusion
    Acknowledgements
    References

    Study of High-Tc Superconductors by mSR-Technique, Yu.M. Belousov and V.P. Smilga
    Introduction
    General Provisions of Ginzburg-Landau's Theory
    Muon Method for Isotropic Superconductors
    Muon Method for Anisotripic Superconductors (HTSC)
    Pinning and Distortion of Vortex Structures
    Application of Theoretical Results to Experimental Data Processing
    Temperature Dependence of the Main Parameters of HTSC (l and x)
    Vortex Lattice Melting and Transition to Three-dimension Structure
    Variation of mSR Signal in Non-equilibrium State of HTSC
    Study of Dependence Tc on Degree of Doping
    Rare-earth Ion Magnetism
    Co-existence of Magnetic Ordering and Superconductivity
    Conclusion
    Acknowledgements
    References

    Subject Index

    Biography

    Proffesor Plakida is Head of the Department of Bogolubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow