Interlayer Josephson coupling in stripe-ordered superconducting cuprates
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Abstract
Motivated by experiments on La2-x Bax CuO4 which suggest that stripe order coexists with two-dimensional pairing without interlayer phase coherence, we determine the interlayer Josephson coupling in the presence of stripe order. We employ a mean-field description of bond-centered stripes, with a zero-momentum superconducting condensate and alternating stripe directions pinned by the low-temperature tetragonal (LTT) lattice structure. We show that the Fermi-surface reconstruction arising from strong stripe order can suppress the Josephson coupling between adjacent layers by more than an order of magnitude.
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Original language | English |
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Article number | 132504 |
Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
Volume | 80 |
Issue number | 13 |
Publication status | Published - 27 Oct 2009 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |