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On the c-axis optical reflectivity of layered cuprate superconductors

Superconductivity 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Using a conventional BCS -- Fermi liquid model we calculate the c-axis optical reflectivity of the layered high temperature cuprate superconductors by obtaining the finite temperature dynamical dielectric function in a microscopic self-consistent gauge invariant formalism. We get good semi-quantitative agreement with all the existing experimental data by using the measured normal state dcdc resistivities as the input parameters in obtaining the c-axis hopping amplitude and the normal state level broadening in our microscopic calculation.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9802089,
  title  = {On the c-axis optical reflectivity of layered cuprate superconductors},
  author = {S. Das Sarma and E. H. Hwang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9802089},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures, 1 table gzipped tar file