Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2007-09-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
Conference proceeding for "Fluctuations in Superconductors" held in Nazareth, Israel in June, 2007; 6 pages with 1 figure, to
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physc.2007.08.021
In many cases inhomogeneities are known to exist near the metal (or superconductor)-insulator transition, as follows from well-known domain-wall arguments. If the conducting regions are large enough (i.e. when the T=0 superconducting gap is much larger than the single-electron level spacing), and if they have superconducting correlations, it becomes energetically favorable for the system to go into a Josephson-coupled zero-resistance state before (i.e. at higher resistance than) becoming a "real" metal. We show that this is plausible by a simple comparison of the relevant coupling constants. For small grains in the above sense, the electronic grain structure is washed out by delocalization and thus becomes irrelevant. When the proposed "Josephson state" is quenched by a magnetic field, an insulating, rather then a metallic, state should appear. This has been shown to be consistent with the existing data on oxide materials as well as ultra-thin films. We discuss the Uemura correlations versus the Homes law, and derive the former for the large-grain Josephson array (inhomogenous superconductor) model. The small-grain case behaves like a dirty homogenous metal. It should obey the Homes law provided that the system is in the dirty supeconductivity limit. A speculation why that is typically the case for d-wave superconductors is presented.
Homes Christopher C.
Imry Yoseph
Strongin M.
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