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We propose a phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau-like theory of cuprate superconductivity. The free energy is expressed as a functional F of the spin-singlet pair amplitude psi_ij=psi_m=Delta_m exp(i phi_m); i and j are nearest-neighbor sites…
The Gutzwiller wave function solution of the $t$-$J$-$U$ model is considered for the bilayer high-T$_C$ superconductor by using the so-called diagrammatic expansion method. The focus is on the influence of the interlayer effects on the…
In order to explore why the multi-layered cuprates have such high Tc's, we have examined various inter-layer processes. Since the inter-layer one-electron hopping has little effects on the band structure, we turn to the inter-layer pair…
The confrontation between percolation processes and superconducting fluctuations to account for the observed enhanced in-plane electrical conductivity above but near $T_c$ in cuprates is revisited. The cuprates studied here,…
We revisit the interlayer tunneling theory of high temperature superconductors and formulate it as a mechanism by which the striking systematics of the transition temperature within a given homologous series can be understood. We pay…
We study the superconducting instability in systems with long but finite ranged, attractive, pairing interactions. We show that such long-ranged superconductors exhibit a new class of fluctuations in which the internal structure of the…
Is it possible to increase Tc by constructing cuprate heterostructures, which combine the high pairing energy of underdoped layers with the large carrier density of proximate overdoped layers? We investigate this question within a model…
Superconductivity in the Tl-based cuprates encompasses a notably broad range of measured optimal transition temperatures Tc0, ranging from lowest in the charge-depleted Tl-1201 compounds…
Magnetic properties of layered high temperature superconductors with a weak interlayer coupling in the region of the critical fluctuations are investigated in the framework of the Ginzburg--Landau approach. The sample magnetization is…
A Ginzburg-Landau approach to fluctuations of a layered superconductor in a magnetic field is used to show that the interlayer coupling can be incorporated within an interacting self-consistent theory of a single layer, in the limit of a…
Using the Ginzburg-Landau theory for two-band superconductors, we determine the surface energy, sigma_s, between coexisting normal and superconducting states at the thermodynamic critical magnetic field. Close to the transition temperature,…
In order to theoretically identify the factors governing superconductivity in multi-layer cuprates, a three-layer Hubbard model is studied with the two-particle self-consistent (TPSC) approach so as to incorporate electron correlations. The…
The main purpose of this brief review is to present a sketch of the mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity based mainly on tunneling measurements in cuprates. In the review, we shall mostly discuss tunneling spectroscopy in Bi2212. Analysis…
The cuprate high temperature superconductors exhibit a pronounced trend in which the superconducting transition temperature, $T_{\rm c}$, increases with the number of CuO$_2$ planes, $n$, in the crystal structure. We compare the magnetic…
High temperature superconductivity in the cuprates remains one of the most widely investigated, constantly surprising, and poorly understood phenomena in physics. Here, we describe briefly a new phenomenological theory inspired by the…
We study thermal phase transitions of color superconductivity by the lattice simulations of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) effective theory. The theory is equivalent to the SU_ f(3) cross SU_c(3) Higgs model coupled to SU_c(3) color gauge fields.…
At the beginning of cuprate superconductors, the interlayer tunneling (ILT) and Lawrence-Doniach (L-D) models, which connect the CuO planes by Josephson coupling were considered the leading theoretical proposals for these materials.…
In their article, Zhang et al. [Phys. Rev. B 86, 024516 (2012)] present a remarkable result for A$_x$(S)$_y$TiNCl compounds ($\alpha$-phase TiNCl partially intercalated with alkali A and optionally co-intercalated molecular species S),…
We point out the incorrect derivation of the gap equation in X.-J. Chen and H. Q. Lin [Phys. Rev. B 69 (2004) 104518; cond-mat/0306680] within the interlayer tunneling (ILT) model for multilayered cuprates. There, the local structure in…
The interlayer pair-tunneling (ILT) mechanism for high-$T_c$ superconductivity is able to predict the dependence of the (optimal) critical temperature Tc on the number of layers n within an homologous series of layered cuprate oxides. We…