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High Temperature Superconductivity. Huan Yang. Overview. Conventional Superconductivity Basic phenomena in high temperature superconductivity Current Studies on high temperature superconductivity High Temperature Superconductivity in the future. Zero Resistivity. 1908- liquefied helium
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High Temperature Superconductivity Huan Yang
Overview • Conventional Superconductivity • Basic phenomena in high temperature superconductivity • Current Studies on high temperature superconductivity • High Temperature Superconductivity in the future
Zero Resistivity • 1908- liquefied helium • First discovered in mercury by Kamerlingh-Onnes in 1911. • Critical temperature 4.21K. • Nobel Prize in 1913. E=0 inside the superconductor!
Meissner Effect • B=0 inside the superconductor • Superconductor is not just perfect conductor! • Supercurrent flowing around the surface to shield the B field. • Supercurrent is a superfluid.
BCS Theory • BCS=John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer • Paring of electron- Cooper Pairs • 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics
Copper Pair is stable Pairing State SchrÖdinger equation If |Ek-EF| and |Ek'-EF|<ħω Copper assumes otherwise
Copper Pair is Stable • So we have • Or E<0 !!!
Field point of view Ground State In ground state, all electrons are in pairs.
Gap in the density of States Diagonalize the hamiltonian: S-wave gap function
Type I and Type II superconductor Type I Type II
High temperature Superconductivity • Discovered by Johannes Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander MÜller in LaBaCuO in 1986. Tc=35K. • Nobel Prize in 1987. • YBCO (YBa2Cu3O7-x) with Tc =95K was discovered in 1987. • Highest Tc we have today is 135K, in Hg1223 (HgBa2Ca2Cu3Ox).
Crystal Structure of High temperature superconductors Hc Hab
What interactions/orders exist in High-Tc Superconductor? • Electron-phonon interaction • Spin exchange interaction-antiferromagnetic order • Charge density waves, spin density waves and other competing orders.
Phase Diagram and Competing Orders PG: Pseudogap, SC: Superconductivity, CO: Competing order, AFM: Antiferromagnetic
Competing order in high-Tc superconductivity Competing Orders & Superconductivity Macroscopic Properties Microscopic Properties K.McElroy et al. PRL 94, 197005 (2005) Effect of competing orders on thermodynamic properties. • Local (~5nm) variation in the • Superconducting gap, Δ.
H-T Phase Diagram Coherent phase CO=Competing Orders a = doping level
H-T Phase Diagram CO=Competing Orders
Magnetic Irreversibility Hg-1223
Magnetic Irreversibility (SQUID DATA) T(Hirr) H=2T H=2T Hg-1223
Compare 1st harmonic result with literature 1st Harmonic Signal YBa2Cu3O7−x Hg1223 (HgBa2Ca2Cu3Ox) M. Nikolo, Amer. J. of Phys., Vol. 63, Issue 1, 55-65
Coil Data T(Hirr)
Hc2 Bulk Measurement for Magnetic Irreversible Field H/HC2 Hc2~355T
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Piezo-tube scanner and STM tip V=Bias voltage V Sample
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Topography Vbias=0.5V,Iset=0.63nA Au
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Spectroscopy dI/dV ∝ Density of States
Mean-field (SC & CDW) Exp. data weaker fluctuations Best BCS fitting stronger fluctuations normalized spectra Quasiparticle Density of States and Competing Orders Theory with SC & CO BCS Theory does not work D = 10.5 meV V = 3.8 meV Nai-Chang Yeh et al.
Spatial variation of SC Gap K.McElroy et al. PRL 94, 197005 (2005)
High Tc in the future • Room temperature superconductor • A satisfactory theory on High temperature superconductivity • Development of superconductor devices
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