MINIMAL ANOMALOUS OCCUPANCY IN HIGH-Tc SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
1993 ◽
Vol 07
(24n25)
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pp. 1601-1609
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Keyword(s):
High Tc
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A study of a minimal anomalous occupancy is carried out when a small gap occurs near the Fermi surface. A limit which tends softly to the normal occupancy can be introduced. This framework is applied to a quasi-bidimensional fermion gas which can mimick the copper oxide planes in cuprate superconductors. The energy scale implied by this minimally anomalous occupancy (the soft normal limit) for high-T c cuprate superconductors is of the order of the Debye energy. Yet this anomalous occupancy framework overcomes the phonon barrier and a good description for the critical temperature of a representative set of high-T c copper oxide superconductors is obtained.