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16 - Bose–Einstein Condensation of Bipolarons in High-Tc Superconductors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2009

J. Ranninger
Affiliation:
Centre de Recherches sur les Tres Basses Températures, CNRS, BP 166 38042 Grenoble-Cedex 9 France
A. Griffin
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
D. W. Snoke
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
S. Stringari
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
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The short coherence lengths and the low carrier concentrations in high temperature superconductors (HTcSC) quite naturally favor a scenario where preformed bound electron pairs undergo a Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC). There are numerous experimental indications in the normal state properties (anomalous diamagnetic susceptibility, NMR spin-lattice relaxation, Knight shift and crystal electric field transitions, as well as entropy non-linear in T and strong local lattice deformations seen by EXAFS), all of which indicate a characteristic temperature Tpb associated with the breaking of such preformed electron pairs and the existence of a pseudogap above Tc. As the number of charge carriers is increased by chemical doping, Tpb decreases and the critical temperature Tc, where superconductivity sets in, in this so-called “underdoped regime”, increases. The maximum value for Tc is reached when Tc ≲ TPB. Upon further doping, going into the so-called “overdoped regime”, Tc decreases. We take this as an indication that the superconducting state depends on the existence of preformed electron pairs. The normal state properties of the “underdoped regime” seem to show significant differences from Fermi liquid behavior, while in the “overdoped regime” they seem to be typical of ordinary metals.

In order to capture this empirically established scenario in HTCSC, we discuss a phenomenological model based on a mixture of localized bosons (bound electron pairs such as bipolarons) and itinerant fermions (electrons), with a local exchange between bosons and fermion pairs.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1995

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