2?0/kBTc Ratio and Temperature Dependence of the Superfluid Density in Overdoped La2-xSrxCuO4

Mikhail Eremin, Daniil Sunyaev

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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2010.16050                

Abstract

Using band structure parameters extracted from photoemission data by Yoshida et al., Phys. Rev. B., 2006, we have analyzed the temperature dependence of the superfluid density in overdoped La2-xSrxCuO4. We point out that the temperature behavior 1/λab2 is very sensitive to the ratio 2?0/kBTc and have estimated this quantity, using experimental data obtained previously by Panagopoulos et al., Phys. Rev. B., 1999. We compare the results with those obtained from NMR / NQR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance / Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance) (Mayer et al., J. Phys, Cond. Mat., 2007) and scanning tunneling spectros-copy (Kato et al., Physica C, 2007) data.

Keywords

Supefluid Density, Overdoped La2-xSrxCuO4, Short Range Pairing

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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