Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Abstract

We calculate the dependence of the interlayer quasiparticle conductivity, σq, in a Josephson coupled d-wave superconductor on the magnetic field B∥c and the temperature T. We consider a clean superconductor with resonant impurity scattering and a dominant coherent interlayer tunneling. When pancake vortices in adjacent layers are weakly correlated, at low T the conductivity increases sharply with B over a field scale determined by the impurity scattering, before reaching an extended region of slow linear growth. At high T the conductivity initially decreases and then reaches the same linear regime. For correlated pancakes, σq increases much more strongly with the applied field. © 2000 American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review Letters

First Page

1296

Last Page

1299

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