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Fluctuation contribution to the specific heat in non-Fermi models for superconductivity

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We investigate the fluctuation contribution to the specific heat of a two-dimensional superconductor with a non-Fermi normal state described by a Anderson Green's function G(k,iω)=ωcα/(iωϵk)1αG(k,i\omega)=\omega_c^{-\alpha}/(i\omega-\epsilon_k)^{1-\alpha}. The specific heat corrections contain a term proportional to (T2αTc2α)1(T^{2\alpha-T_c^{2\alpha}})^{-1} and another logarithmic one. We defined a coherence length as function of the non-Fermi parameter α\alpha, which showed that a crossover study between BCS and Bose-Einstein condensation is possible by varying α\alpha in an interval 0÷αcr0 \div \alpha_{cr}. By comparing our theoretical results with the experimental data for HTSC materials, we reobtained the value for α\alpha, corresponding to such systems, of the order 0.3÷0.450.3 \div 0.45. We also reobtained the critical temperature for such a superconductor using the Thouless criterion.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9810034,
  title  = {Fluctuation contribution to the specific heat in non-Fermi models for superconductivity},
  author = {I. Tifrea and I. Grosu and M. Crisan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9810034},
  year   = {2007}
}

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