Superconductivity in Na$_x$CoO$_2$$\cdot$yH$_2$O : Is Spin-Charge Separation Protecting a d$_1$+id$_2$ State ?

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2003-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309563v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages revtex, 2 figures included, few typos corrected and some references added

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Superconductivity in Na$_x$CoO$_2$$\cdot$yH$_2$O is likely to be a p or d-wave; however, experiments are unable to pinpoint the symmetry. A simple estimate of pair breaking effects from an unavoidable `Na$^+$ vacancy disorder' in an ordered Na$^+$ lattice, at an optimal $x_{\rm opt} \approx 0.30$ is shown to destroy a Fermi liquid based p or d-wave superconductivity. However, a robustness of superconducting and normal states, seen in experiments is pointed out and argued to imply presence of a `quantum protectorate', possibly a `spin-charge decoupling' that protects a d$_1$+id$_2$ and not a p-state. A calculation of Knight shift and ${1\over T_1}$ in the framework of RVB mean field theory and a fit to the data of Kobayashi ${\it et al.}$ [9] is made.

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