Quasiparticle-quasiparticle Scattering in High Tc Superconductors
Abstract
The quasiparticle lifetime and the related transport relaxation times are the fundamental quantities which must be known in order to obtain a description of the transport properties of the high T_c superconductors. Studies of these quantities have been undertaken previously for the d-wave, high T_c superconductors for the case of temperature-independent elastic impurity scattering. However, much less is known about the temperature-dependent inelastic scattering. Here we give a detailed description of the characteristics of the temperature-dependent quasiparticle-quasiparticle scattering in d-wave superconductors, and find that this process gives a natural explanation of the rapid variation with temperature of the electrical transport relaxation rate.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9910171,
title = {Quasiparticle-quasiparticle Scattering in High Tc Superconductors},
author = {M. B. Walker and M. F. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9910171},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages