Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2001-05-29
Physica C 366, 13 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
19 pages including 6 figures, submitted to Physica C
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0921-4534(01)00931-5
We describe a simple model for calculating the zero-temperature superfluid density of Zn-doped YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta} as a function of the fraction x of in-plane Cu atoms which are replaced by Zn. The basis of the calculation is a ``Swiss cheese'' picture of a single CuO_2 layer, in which a substitutional Zn impurity creates a normal region of area $\pi\xi_{ab}^2$ around it as originally suggested by Nachumi et al. Here $\xi_{ab}$ is the zero-temperature in-plane coherence length at x = 0. We use this picture to calculate the variation of the in-plane superfluid density with x at temperature T = 0, using both a numerical approach and an analytical approximation. For $\delta = 0.37$, if we use the value $\xi_{ab}$ = 18.3 angstrom, we find that the in-plane superfluid decreases with increasing x and vanishes near $x_c = 0.01$ in the analytical approximation, and near $x_c = 0.014$ in the numerical approach. $x_c$ is quite sensitive to $\xi_{ab}$, whose value is not widely agreed upon. The model also predicts a peak in the real part of the conductivity, Re$\sigma_e(\omega, x)$, at concentrations $x \sim x_c$, and low frequencies, and a variation of critical current density with x of the form $J_c(x) \propto n_{S,e}(x)^{7/4}$ near percolation, where $n_{S,e}(x)$ is the in-plane superfluid density.
Barabash Sergey V.
Chai Jeng-Da
Stroud David
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