Enhancement of the superconducting critical temperature in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ by controlling disorder outside CuO$_2$ planes

Details Enhancement of the superconducting critical temperature in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ by controlling disorder outside CuO$_2$ planes Enhancement of the superconducting critical temperature in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ by controlling disorder outside CuO$_2$ planes

2009-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2613v1

Phys. Rev. B 79, 064507 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

7 pages, 1 table, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.064507

We investigate the effect of disorder at various lattice sites outside the CuO$_2$ plane on the superconducting critical temperature $T_c$ of the cuprate superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ (Bi2212). The most effective disorder turns out to be that at the Sr site in the neighboring blocks, which contain apical-oxygen atoms. The Sr-site disorder reduces $T_c$ and also produces a residual component ($\rho_0$) in the in-plane resistivity, the magnitude of which is found to be proportional to the magnitude of $T_c$ reduction. We demonstrate that both $T_c$-degradation rate and $\rho_0$ decrease as the number of the CuO$_2$ planes increases in the unit cell, that is, as the number of the neighboring SrO blocks decreases. In real crystals of Bi-based cuprates, main source of disorder is Bi atoms randomly occupying the Sr sites. We have succeeded in reducing the Bi content at Sr-sites as much as possible and achieved $T_c$=98K, a high-$T_c$ record in Bi2212.

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