The Zeno effect and an inter-layer pairing mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity in layered materials
Abstract
Quantum Zeno Effect (QZE) is the suppression of the inter-subspace transition by a relatively fast intra-subspace decoherence. Earlier, we had proposed a QZE-based mechanism for the temperature-dependent normal-state c-axis resistivity of the layered high-T cuprate superconductors in which the single-particle inter-layer tunneling is blocked by the strong intra-layer decoherence (entanglement). We now argue that while the single-particle inter-layer tunneling is thus blocked, the tunneling of the bosonic BCS-like pairs must remain unblocked inasmuch as a BCS pairing condensate is an eigenstate of the pair annihilation operator. This pair tunneling stabilizes
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008023,
title = {The Zeno effect and an inter-layer pairing mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity in layered materials},
author = {N. Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008023},
year = {2017}
}
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RevTeX, 9 pages, No figures, To be presented at the 8th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 7-10 August, 2000