Simple analytical model of the effect of high pressure on the critical temperature and other thermodynamic properties of superconductors

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Mateusz KrzyzosiakLucjan Jacak

Abstract

Within the general conformal transformation method a simplified analytical model is proposed to study the effect of external hydrostatic pressure on low- and high-temperature superconducting systems. A single fluctuation in the density of states, placed away from the Fermi level, as well as external pressure are included in the model to derive equations for the superconducting gap, free energy difference, and specific heat difference. The zero- and sub-critical temperature limits are discussed by the method of successive approximations. The critical temperature is found as a function of high external pressure. It is shown that there are four universal types of the response of the system, in terms of dependence of the critical temperature on increasing external pressure. Some effects, which should be possible to be observed experimentally in s-wave superconductors, the cuprates (i.e. high-Tc superconductors) and other superconducting materials of the new generation such as two-gap superconductors, are revealed and discussed. An equation for the ratio [Formula: see text] ≡ 2Δ(0)/Tc, as a function of the introduced parameters, is derived and solved numerically. Analysis of other thermodynamic quantities and the characteristic rati...Continue Reading

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