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Optical conductivity of d-wave superconductors

Superconductivity 2015-06-24 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study theoretically the optical conductivity of d-wave superconductors like in high temperature cuprates in the presence of impurities. We limit ourselves at T=0K and focus on the frequency dependence of both sigma_1(omega) and \omega*\sigma_2(omega) for omega<2Delta. When the impurity scattering is in the unitary limit, we find a peak in sigma_1(omega) with omega/Delta\simeq 0.1\sim 0.5$, which may account for the peak seen by Basov et al. in Zn-substituted YBCO.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0012198,
  title  = {Optical conductivity of d-wave superconductors},
  author = {Balázs Dóra and Kazumi Maki and Attila Virosztek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0012198},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Europhys. Lett