High-temperature superconductors as heterostructures |
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Authors: | V V Kapaev Yu V Kopaev |
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Institution: | (1) P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117924 Moscow, Russia |
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Abstract: | The wave-function envelope method is used to describe the electronic states of the cuprate high-T
c superconductors (HTSCs). In this method the 2D electronic states of the CuO2 layers of a unit cell play the role of quantum wells, while the 2D states of the reservoir play the role of quantum barriers.
Because of the different anisotropy of the 2D effective masses of the wells and barriers, some states on the Fermi surface
(line) belong to CuO2 layers and some states belong to the reservoir layers. This behavior of the electronic states explains characteristic features
of HTSCs, such as the existence of regions on the Fermi surface with strongly different relaxation times, the weak suppression
of d-type superconducting pairing by nonmagnetic scattering, and the coincidence of the angular dependence of the superconducting
order parameter and the angular dependence of the electronic density of states (forward scattering predominating). The change
in the signs of the components of the effective masses along the Fermi surface can result in the formation of hole pairs (biholes)
or electron pairs (bielectrons) on account of the Coulomb interaction in the case of a negative reduced mass of the pairs.
Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, No. 3, 211–216 (10 August 1998) |
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