| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 55, Number 3, August 2001
|
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 369 - 375 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00425-9 | |
| Published online | 01 December 2003 | |
Quantum-critical superconductivity in underdoped cuprates
1
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin -
Madison, WI 53706, USA
2
Department of Physics and Ames Laboratory,
Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011, USA
Received:
10
January
2001
Accepted:
4
May
2001
We argue that the pseudogap phase may be an attribute of the non-BCS pairing of quantum-critical, diffusive fermions near the antiferromagnetic quantum critical point. We derive and solve a set of three coupled Eliashberg-type equations for spin-mediated pairing and show that in some T range below the pairing instability, there is no feedback from superconductivity on fermionic excitations, and fermions remain diffusive despite of the pairing. We conject that in this regime, fluctuations of the pairing gap destroy the superconducting condensate but preserve the leading edge gap in the fermionic spectral function.
PACS: 71.10.Ca – Electron gas, Fermi gas / 74.20.Fg – BCS theory and its development / 74.25.-q – Superconductivity: General properties; correlations between physical properties in normal and superconducting states
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