Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2008-09-08
Phys. Rev. B 78, 054527 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
15 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.054527
Fluctuating local diamagnetic pairs of electrons, embedded in a Fermi sea, are candidates for non-phonon-mediated superconductors without the stringent conditions on Tc which arise in phonon-mediated BCS classical low-Tc superconductors. The local accumulations of charge, from which such diamagnetic fluctuations originate, are irrevocably coupled to local dynamical lattice instabilities and form composite charge-lattice excitations of the system. For a superconducting phase to be realized, such excitations must be itinerant spatially phase-coherent modes. This can be achieved by resonant pair tunneling in and out of polaronic cation-ligand sites. Materials in which superconductivity driven by such local lattice instability can be expected, have a Tc which is controlled by the phase stiffness rather than the amplitude of the diamagnetic pair fluctuations. Above Tc, a pseudogap phase will be maintained up to a T*, where this pairing amplitude disappears. We discuss the characteristic local charge and lattice properties which characterize this pseudogap phase and which form the prerequisites for establishing a phase-coherent macroscopic superconducting state.
Ranninger Julius
Romano Alfonso
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