Handbook of High-Temperature Superconductivity: Theory and Experiment Book

Preface     v
Acknowledgments     ix
List of Contributors     xxi
Credit Lines     xxiii
From Single- to Bipolarons with Jahn-Teller Character and Metallic Cluster-Stripes in Hole-Doped Cuprates   K. A. Muller
The Original Jahn-Teller Polaron Concept and Its Shortcomings     1
Recent Experiments Probing Delocalized Properties     2
Probing of Local Properties     4
The Intersite JT-Bipolaron Concept Derived from EXAFS, EPR, and Neutron Scattering     5
Two-Component Scenario     7
JT-Bipolarons as the Elementary Quasiparticles to Understand the Phase Diagram and Metallic Clusters or Stripes     9
Substantial Oxygen Isotope Effects     12
Concluding Remarks     17
Bibliography     17
Tunneling Measurements of the Cuprate Superconductors   J. R. Kirtley   F. Tafuri
Introduction     19
General Concepts     20
Types of Junction Structures     20
Generalized Junction Conductance     22
The Tunnel and Proximity Effects     22
Andreev Reflection and Bound States     25
The Josephson Effect: General Features     27
Andreev Reflection in SNS Junctions     28
Means ofPreparing Tunnel Junctions     32
Junctions with Single Crystals     32
Grain Boundary Junctions     32
Bicrystal Junctions     32
Biepitaxial Junctions     33
Step-Edge Junctions     34
Electron Beam Junctions     34
Junctions with Artificial Barriers     35
Noble Metal Barriers     35
Perovskite and Layered Materials Barriers     36
Interface-Engineered Junctions     37
Junctions with HTS Rather than YBCO     37
La[subscript 1.85]Sr[subscript 0.15]CuO[subscript 4]-Based Trilayer with One-Unit-Cell-Thick Barrier     37
Electron Doped HTS     38
Ca and Co Doped YBCO: Insights into the Overdoped Regime     38
Ultra-Thin Films and Superlattices     38
Intrinsic Stacked Junctions     38
[pi]-Rings and 0 - [pi]-Junctions     39
Tunneling Spectroscopy     44
Superconducting Gap     44
General Features     44
Temperature Dependence     50
Momentum Dependence     53
Doping Dependence     57
Macroscopic Quantum Effects     59
Pseudogap     60
Temperature Dependence      60
Magnetic Field Dependence     62
Linear Conduction Background     64
Zero-Bias Anomalies     65
Atomically Resolved Conductivity Modulation Effects     69
Strong Coupling Effects     72
Electron-Phonon     73
Electron-Magnon     74
Conclusions     75
Bibliography     75
Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy on Electronic Structure and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Cuprate Superconductors   X. J. Zhou   T. Cuk   T. Devereaux   N. Nagaosa   Z.-X. Shen
Introduction     87
Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy     88
Principle     88
Technique     90
Electronic Structures of High Temperature Superconductors     95
Basic Crystal Structure and Electronic Structure     95
Brief Summary of Some Latest ARPES Results     98
Electron-Phonon Coupling in High Temperature Superconductors     98
Brief Survey of Electron-Phonon Coupling in High-Temperature Superconductors     99
Electron-Phonon Coupling: Theory     102
General     102
Weak Coupling-Perturbative and Self-Energy Description     106
Strong Coupling-Polaron      110
Band Renormalization and Quasiparticle Lifetime Effects     111
El-Ph Coupling Along the (0,0)-([pi],[pi]) Nodal Direction     111
Multiple Modes in the Electron Self-Energy     116
El-Ph Coupling Near the ([pi],0) Antinodal Region     118
Anisotropic El-Ph Coupling     122
Polaronic Behavior     124
Polaronic Behavior in Parent Compounds     124
Doping Dependence: From Z