Papers by Keyword: Cuprate Superconductor

Abstract: Within the kinetic energy driven superconducting mechanism, we have studied the temperature dependence of commensurate magnetic resonance in cuprate superconductors. It is shown that the commensurate magnetic resonance peak at the antiferromagnetic wave vector point persists in the superconducting state until the temperature rises to the superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$. The intensity of the resonance peak decreases with increasing temperature which is just like the temperature dependence of the superconducting gap parameter. Our results are in qualitative agreement with the inelastic neutron scattering experimental data and reflect that the commensurate magnetic resonance is closely related to the creation of the charge carrier pairs and thus the superconducting mechanism of cuprate superconductors.

Abstract: We present a theoretical analysis of the transition from thermal activation (TA) regime to the macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) regime of the decay from a metastable persistent current state in grain boundary junctions of cuprate superconductors. This transition is conventionally characterized by a single crossover temperature determined by the potential profile and dissipative mechanisms. It is shown that due to the existence of low energy bound states (mid-gap states) for various relative orientations of the crystal axes, there exists a window of parameters where one finds, with lowering temperature, an inverse crossover from MQT to TA, followed by a subsequent reentrance of MQT. It is shown that these predictions are in reasonable agreement with recent experiments.