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Is Fluctuation Conductivity a Probe to Determine the Presence of S or D -Wave Pairing in High-T C Superconductors?

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Symmetry and Pairing in Superconductors

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Can the fluctuation conductivity(or paraconductivity) be used as an experimental probe for the detection of s or non-s wave (d wave?) pairing in high temperature superconductors? As it can be shown Maki — Thompson effect turns out to be absent for pure d-wave superconductors. In other words, the scattering of the electrons to impurities has the effect of destroying the pairing, if this is not of the s-wave kind, since the out-coming electrons do not satisfy any more the pairing relation in the momentum space. Thus, the presence or absence of Maki — Thompson terms in the fluctuation conductivity of a high Tc superconducting sample can be used to determine the presence or absence of s-wave pairing. Experimental results concerning fluctuation measurements on different superconductors are presented.

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Patapis, S.K. (1999). Is Fluctuation Conductivity a Probe to Determine the Presence of S or D -Wave Pairing in High-T C Superconductors?. In: Ausloos, M., Kruchinin, S. (eds) Symmetry and Pairing in Superconductors. NATO Science Series, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4834-4_28

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