| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 56, Number 6, December 2001
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 849 - 855 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical magnetic and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00597-2 | |
| Published online | 01 December 2003 | |
A minimal model of striped superconductors
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory - Los
Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Received:
17
August
2001
Accepted:
26
September
2001
We present a minimal model of high-temperature superconductors that simultaneously supports antiferromagnetic stripes and d-wave superconductivity. At the unrestricted mean-field level, the various phases of the cuprates, including weak and strong pseudogap phases, and two different types of superconductivity in the underdoped and the overdoped regimes, find a natural interpretation. We argue that on the underdoped side, the superconductor is intrinsically inhomogeneous and global phase coherence is achieved through Josephson-like coupling of the superconducting stripes. On the overdoped side, the state is overall homogeneous and the superconductivity is of a classical BCS type.
PACS: 74.20.-z – Theories and models of superconducting state / 74.25.Dw – Superconductivity phase diagrams / 74.20.Mn – Nonconventional mechanisms (spin fluctuations, polarons and bipolarons, resonating valence bond model, anyon mechanism, marginal Fermi liquid, Luttinger liquid, etc.)
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