Isotope effect on the superfluid density in conventional and high-temperature superconductors

Details Isotope effect on the superfluid density in conventional and high-temperature superconductors Isotope effect on the superfluid density in conventional and high-temperature superconductors

2010-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/1009.2429v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 6 figures

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We investigate the isotope effect on the London penetration depth of a superconductor which measures $n_S/m^*$, the ratio of superfluid density to effective mass. We use a simplified model of electrons weakly coupled to a single phonon frequency $\omega_E$, but assume that the energy gap $\Delta$ does not have any isotope effect. Nevertheless we find an isotope effect for $n_S/m^*$ which is significant if $\Delta$ is sufficiently large that it becomes comparable to $\omega_E$, a regime of interest to high $T_c$ cuprate superconductors and possibly other families of unconventional superconductors with relatively high $T_c$. Our model is too simple to describe the cuprates and it gives the wrong sign of the isotope effect when compared with experiment, but it is a proof of principle that the isotope effect exists for $n_S/m^*$ in materials where the pairing gap and $T_c$ is not of phonon origin and has no isotope effect.

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