1. Transport and thermodynamic properties of high temperature superconductors (HTS)-an experimentalist's view.
Overall aims:
Emphasize what can be achieved by `small-scale' experiments on new materials. New states of matter!
Importance of changing a control or tuning parameter in a systematic way, e.g. sample composition, pressure, magnetic field.
Keep in mind access to shared facilities, e.g. high magnetic field, synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering labs.
Powerpoint slides shown on April 16th.
Blackboard presentations were made on:
Revision of free electron, nearly free electron and tight binding theories of metals. 3D, quasi 2D and 1 D Fermi surface. Counting states in k space. Qualitative description of Peierls transition.
Derivations of transport properties using the Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation. Based on the textbook “Principles of the Theory of Solids” J.M. Ziman, Cambridge University Press (1964) Ch.7. Handwritten notes for this section to follow shortly.

2. Overview of HTS subjects to be covered
Systematic patterns in normal state transport properties, resistivity, thermoelectric power, Hall effect as a function of hole doping and cation substitution
Thermodynamic properties, heat capacity and magnetic susceptibility/magnetisation in normal and s/c states. Especially for hole-doped cuprates.
High magnetic field studies at international facilities especially Quantum Oscillation (QO) work.
But will try to make it relevant for students working on other problems / materials, e.g. by talking about experimental methods
PLEASE INTERRUPT IF YOU THINK IT WILL BE HELPFUL!

3. Periodic table of elements showing superconducting transition temperatures
Courtesy of A. Carrington, University of Bristol, 2003

4. Superconducting elements and compounds
Elements (see table), “less good” metals superconducting.
Until quite recently superconductivity and magnetism thought to be incompatible.
Tc(K)
A15 compounds Nb3Sn
Nb3Ge
Organics (TMTSF)2PF
k-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(SCN)
Cs3C
Heavy Fermions CeCu2.2Si
CePd2Si2 (under pressure)
UBe
UPt
Magnetic materials UGe2 (under pressure)
Nearly ferro-magnetic Sr2RuO
Cuprates La2-xSrxCuO
YBa2Cu3O7-d
HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+d (under pressure) (164)
Borides HoNi2B2C
YNi2B2C
MgB
Pnictides (P, As) Nd(O1-xFx)FeAs
Also late last year Eremets group H2S at extreme pressure 190 K! arXiv:

5. Cuprates (Bednorz and Muller, 1986)
Diagrams from Prof. W.Y. Liang
Cuprates (Bednorz and Muller, 1986)

6. Top view of CuO2 plane
Crystal structure of highest Tc cuprate
Typical Cu-O co-ordination in cuprate superconductors

7. p orbitals PF6- Jerome et al (1980)
CePd2Si2
Julian et al (1999) Saxena et al. (2000)

8. Cuprates (Bednorz and Muller, 1986)
Parent compounds anti-ferromagnetic Mott insulators e.g. La2CuO4,
Count electrons 2La3+  6+, 4O2-  8-, Cu2+, so Cu (3d10 4s1)  3d9.
one hole in d shell, one hole per unit cell, but not conducting.
Correlated electrons, Mott-Hubbard insulator. Antiferromagnetic, Neel temperature 300 K.
Dope lightly with holes, e.g. replace 8% of La3+ atoms with Sr2+
get 40 K superconductor! La2-xSrxCuO4 , 1+x holes per CuO2 unit. Now think that all hole doped cuprates show similar behaviour as function of
number of added holes, p (p = x for LSCO).
YBa2Cu3O6+x , add O2- , add holes to CuO2 layers until have YBa2Cu3O7
Layered compounds, wide range of anisotropy, CuO2 layers source
of superconductivity

9. Two popular theories: 1.The “t-J” model - starting from the Mott-Hubbard side.
Holes moving in an a-f background attract each other because minimise magnetic perturbation.
Analytical theory difficult because double occupancy is excluded. Numerical calculations at high T account for many of the strange properties of the cuprates. See e.g. “Numerical studies of the t-J model”, J. Jaklic and P. Prelovsek, Adv. Phys. (2000), 1, 1-85 starting with “t-J” Hamiltonian:
Does give strong p dependences of electrical conductivity and entropy that are observed experimentally. Almost no adjustable parameters. Origin of PG?

10. 2. The spin-fluctuation model or nearly anti-ferromagnetic Fermi liquid model, NAFL (Pines et al., Moriya et al.). Start from LDA Fermi surface containing 1+p holes per Cu. Introduce antiferromagnetic correlations in self-consistent way.
Enhanced magnetic response at Q = (+/-/a, +/-/a), corresponds to proximity to a-f ordered state. Long-lived a-f spin excitations of wave-vector Q can be formed by correlated occupancy of k and (k+Q) states. These are spin fluctuations, collective excitations of Fermi liquid. Analogy : mixing of k and k+G states in nearly free electron theory of metals gives modulations in charge density with period of lattice parameter.
Similar picture works well for superfluid He3 (ferromagnetic fluctuations). Supported by NMR, neutron scattering and ARPES data, predicted d-wave pairing. Pairing given by virtual exchange of spin fluctuations. Are they strong enough to produce the high Tc s found in the cuprates? And strong p-dependences of conductivity and entropy?
Early (1993) model used by us to calculate Hall coefficient and thermoelectric power. lQ and lc are electron mfp’s in spanned and unspanned regions. x is range of a-f correlations,

11. Four terminal resistance measurements. R0 is resistance at 273. 16 K
Four terminal resistance measurements. R0 is resistance at K. As increase purity of metal resistance ratio, R273.16/R4.2 increases.
Controversy between Kelvin, Dewar and Matthiessen about R(T 0).
Kamerlingh Onnes (Leiden 1911).
Present limit for small s/c Pb ring with trapped field (Quinn and Ittner, J. Appl. Phys, 33,748, 1962) r <  cm (no decay in magnetic moment over a time of expt., so L/R > 7 hrs). Nowadays use s/c coils in persistent mode to provide high magnetic fields ( e.g. 18 T) without power dissipation.

12. From G. Gruner Rev. Mod. Phys. 60, 1129 (1988)
From P. Monceau et al. PRL, 37, 602 (1976)

13. From G. Gruner
Rev. Mod. Phys. 60, 1129 (1988)

14. From G. Gruner Rev. Mod. Phys. 60, 1129 (1988)
From D. Jerome and H.J. Schulz, Adv. Phy. 31, (1982)
From G. Gruner Rev. Mod. Phys. 60, 1129 (1988)
Interacting Fermions in 1 D

15. MgB2 Fermi Surface with dHvA orbits
J. Kortus et al, PRL 86, 4656 (2001)

16. From JRC, Handbook of Superconducting Materials, D. A. Cardwell and D
From JRC, Handbook of Superconducting Materials, D.A. Cardwell and D.S. Ginley, Eds, IoP (2002) p. 1461

17. Another pair of contacts opposite
Diagram from A. Carrington’s PhD thesis 1993.
For crystal, thickness t = 20 microns, 0.2 mm between voltage contacts and 0.2 mm wide and ρa = 50 e-6 ohm-cms (OII YBCO just above Tc), Ra only 25 milliohms. One reason why people using pulsed magnetic fields often measure ρc . Resistance of contacts – 1 ohm considered good, therefore separate I and V contacts – 4 terminal method - essential
RH = 1/ne, (n is carrier density).
Estimate Hall voltage
VH= RH I B/t
Take RH = 2 e-9 m3/C , e.g. Carrington et al, Phys Rev B , 1993, then for I = 1 ma, t = 20 microns and B = 10T get VH = 1e-6 V. In practice need to see how large I can be without getting too much heating. Also check that voltage noise does not increase with I. If it does then no point in increasing I further. Stability of contacts important for measuring RH,
e.g. Heat treated silver paint (Dupont 6838) often better than room temperature cured Dupont 4929.

18. Sketch set up
matching transformers.
Twisted pairs especially high field.
Johnson noise.

19. From JRC, Handbook of Superconducting Materials, D. A. Cardwell and D
From JRC, Handbook of Superconducting Materials, D.A. Cardwell and D.S. Ginley, Eds, IoP (2002) p. 1461

20. Thermoelectric power, thermopower, Seebeck coefficient (S)
From JRC, Handbook of Superconducting Materials, D.A. Cardwell and D.S. Ginley, Eds, IoP (2002) p. 1461