Bipolaronic proximity and other unconventional effects in cuprate superconductors
arXiv:0801.3779 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9146-9_12
Abstract
There is compelling evidence for a strong electron-phonon interaction (EPI) in cuprate superconductors from the isotope effects on the supercarrier mass, high resolution angle resolved photoemission spectroscopies (ARPES), a number of optical and neutron-scattering measurements in accordance with our prediction of high-temperature superconductivity in polaronic liquids. A number of observations point to the possibility that high-Tc cuprate superconductors may not be conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors, but rather derive from the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of real-space pairs, which are mobile small bipolarons. Here I review the bipolaron theory of unconventional proximity effects, the symmetry and checkerboard modulations of the order parameter and quantum magneto-oscillations discovered recently in cuprates.
16 pages, 5 figures, invited contribution to "Electron Transport in Nanosystems", eds. Janez Bonca and Sergei Kruchinin (Springer 2008), more references and a comment on the recent reinterpretation of the isotope effects are added
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