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New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories pp 187–212Cite as

Stripe-Like Inhomogeneities, Coherence, and the Physics of the High tc Cuprates

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The carriers in the high-Tc cuprates are found to be polaron-like “stripons” carrying charge and located in stripe-like inhomogeneities, “quasi-electrons” carrying charge and spin, and “svivons” carrying spin and some lattice distortion. The anomalous spectroscopic and transport properties of the cuprates are understood. The stripe-like inhomogeneities result from the Bose condensation of the svivon field, and the speed of their dynamics is determined by the width of the double-svivon neutron-resonance peak. The connection of this peak to the peak-dip-hump gap structure observed below Tc emerges naturally. Pairing results from transitions between pair states of stripons and quasi-electrons through the exchange of svivons. The pairing symmetry is of the dx2−y2 type; however, sign reversal through the charged stripes results in features not characteristic of this symmetry. The phase diagram is determined by pairing and coherence lines within the regime of a Mott transition. Coherence without pairing results in a Fermi-liquid state, and incoherent pairing results in the pseudogap state where localized electron and electron pair states exist within the Hubbard gap. A metal-insulator-transition quantum critical point occurs between these two states at T = 0 when the superconducting state is suppressed. An intrinsic heterogeneity is expected of superconducting and pseudogap nanoscale regions.

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    J. Ashkenazi , Joshua L. Cohn  & Fulin Zuo ,  & 

  2. Kazan State University, Kazan, Russian Federation

    Mikhail V. Eremin

  3. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Ilya Eremin

  4. Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

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  5. EPFL, Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Ashkenazi, J. (2005). Stripe-Like Inhomogeneities, Coherence, and the Physics of the High tc Cuprates. In: Ashkenazi, J., et al. New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 183. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3085-1_29

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