Increasing Superconducting Tc's by a Factor of 1000 with StripeLike Hopping Anisotropies

Details Increasing Superconducting Tc's by a Factor of 1000 with StripeLike Hopping Anisotropies Increasing Superconducting Tc's by a Factor of 1000 with StripeLike Hopping Anisotropies

2002-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202478v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages (Revtex), 4 eps figures

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We have studied the enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, in a t-J-U model of electrons moving on a square lattice in which anisotropic electronic hopping is introduced. The inclusion of such hopping mimics, in a approximate fashion, a potentially important characteristic of materials possessing stripelike charge and spin correlations. For this model we have calculated Tc for singlet pairing using the non self-consistent Thouless criterion, and find a dramatic enhancement of Tc induced by hopping anisotropies. Further, the maximum increase in Tc is obtained when the system is pushed towards the extreme anisotropy limit, that is, when the hopping of electrons is confined to occur in 1+0^+ dimensions. We demonstrate that in this limit the increase in Tc, with respect to the isotropic system, can be of the order of 1000. We have also determined that in the extreme anisotropy limit the superconducting gap is an equal mixture of s and d pairing symmetries (two choices of such a combination being s + d and s + id) owing to the reduced (square to rectangular) symmetry of the system in the presence of hopping anisotropies. Thus, the presence of d-wave superconducting features in materials whose symmetry is very different from that of a two-dimensional square lattice, with the anisotropy produced by the appearance of stripes, is not unexpected.

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