GAP ANISOTROPY IN HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS - A UNIFIED PICTURE

被引:8
作者
KIRTLEY, JR
机构
[1] IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1990年 / 41卷 / 10期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.41.7201
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
I propose a synthesis of the results of several different gap-measurement technqiues by means of a phenomenological, anisotropic model for the energy gap. This model, which has a large gap in the a-b plane crystalline direction, and a smaller BCS-sized gap in the c-axis direction, is chosen to be consistent with recent infrared, Raman, photoemission, and high-resolution electron-energy-loss data. I show in this paper that it is also consistent with point-contact tunneling data. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:7201 / 7204
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