On the dimensionality of superconductivity in cuprate superconductors |
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Authors: | M V Krasin’kova |
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Institution: | (1) A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Abstract: | The question of the dimensionality of superconductivity is considered within the framework of a model of superconductivity
via asymmetric, delocalized “crystalline” π orbitals (analogous to the corresponding molecular orbitals) extending along chains of covalently bonded copper and oxygen
ions. It is shown that superconductivity is preceded by a separation of the bonds in the CuO2 layer into covalent and ionic bonds with ordering of the covalent bonds into chains. Such an ordering facilitates the formation
of a crystalline π orbital lowering the crystal energy by the resonance energy of the π bond and is therefore favored. The superconducting current is created by non-dissipative motion of π-electron pairs along the asymmetric, “crystalline” π orbitals extending along chains of covalently bonded copper and oxygen ions, in the presence of an ionic bond between neighboring
chains extending through the easily polarizable O2− ions. This ionic bond correlates the motion of the electron pairs along all the π orbitals and stabilizes the superconducting state. Only in this sense is the apparent “onedimensionality” of superconductivity
in cuprate superconductors to be understood.
Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 68, 82–84 (November 1998) |
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