Published May 2012 | Version v1
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Band Jahn-Teller effect on the density of states of the magnetic high-Tc superconductors: A model study

  • 1. Department of Physics, Govt. Science College, Malkangiri 764 048 (India)
  • 2. Department of Physics, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar 751 030 (India)
  • 3. Condensed Matter Physics Group, Dept. of Applied Physics and Ballistics, F.M. University, Balasore 756 019 (India)

Description

We report here a mean-field study of competing antiferromagnetism, superconductivity and lattice strain phases and their effect on the local density of states of the cuprate system. Our model Hamiltonian incorporating these interactions is reported earlier [G.C. Rout et al., Physica C, 2007]. The analytic expression for superconducting, antiferromagnetism and lattice strain order parameters are calculated and solved self-consistently. The interplay of these order parameters is investigated considering the calculated density of states (DOSs) of the conduction electrons. The DOS displays multiple gap structures with multiple peaks. It is suggested that the tunneling conductance data obtained from the scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements could be interpreted by using the quasi-particle bands calculated from our model Hamiltonian. We have discussed the mechanism to calculate the order parameters from the conductance data.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2011.12.041

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physc.2011.12.041;
PII
S0921-4534(12)00006-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. C, Superconductivity
Journal Volume
475
Journal Page Range
p. 14-19
ISSN
0921-4534
CODEN
PHYCE6

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