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October 30, 1989Physical Review LettersOpen Access

Phenomenology of the normal state of Cu-O high-temperature superconductors

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CVC. M. VarmaRutgers, The State University of New JerseyPLP. B. LittlewoodUniversity of St AndrewsSSS. Schmitt‐RinkNokia (United States)

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Implication

Theoretical modeling reveals universal normal-state anomalies in copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors, suggesting a marginal Fermi liquid framework governs their behavior.

Key Points

  • To establish a unifying phenomenological hypothesis explaining the universal anomalous normal-state properties of copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors.
  • Postulated that charge- and spin-density excitations exhibit an absorptive polarizability scaling with frequency over temperature (ω/T) at low frequencies and remaining constant otherwise.
  • Derived the physical consequences of this marginal Fermi liquid hypothesis across various thermodynamic, transport, and superconducting properties.
  • Demonstrated that the proposed ω/T excitation spectrum directly reproduces universal normal-state anomalous behaviors observed across cuprate superconductors.
  • Established the marginal Fermi liquid concept as a theoretical basis for connecting anomalous normal-state excitation dynamics directly to high-temperature superconductivity.

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Varma et al. (1989) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6870cd93a727eca1f2d47https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.63.1996
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