Quick search Find article
Quick search
Find article

Superfluid density in a superconductor with an extended d-wave gap

FREE ARTICLE

Ruslan Prozorov

Show affiliations


RAPID COMMUNICATION

The superconducting gap and the superfluid density are calculated for the extended d-wave gap suggested by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements in electron-doped superconductors as well as underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x (BSCCO2212). It is shown that experimental superfluid density may agree with such a gap, but full-temperature range analysis is required. With additional information on the Δ(0)/Tc ratio, this opens up the possibility of deciding whether a non-monotonic or higher harmonic spectral gap, as seen by ARPES, is a superposition of a regular d-wave gap and an unrelated pseudogap that does not contribute to superconductivity or that the extended gap is a real superconducting gap. This paper is also an erratum to earlier calculations published in Prozorov and Giannetta (2006 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 19 R41–67) where the wrong sign was used for the non-monotonic gap, altering the conclusions rather drastically.


PACS

74.25.Jb Electronic structure

79.60.-i Photoemission and photoelectron spectra

74.72.Hs Bi-based cuprates

74.20.Fg BCS theory and its development

Subjects

Superconductivity

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 8 (August 2008)

Received 19 March 2008, in final form 30 May 2008

Published 16 June 2008



View by subject




Export








Please login to access our web services, or create an account if you don't yet have one.

You must have cookies enabled in your web browser to be able to login.

Username
Password

Forgotten your password? Get a new one here.