Dynamical Dimension Reduction in Underdoped Hihg Temperature Superconductors

TL;DR

This paper proposes that the pseudogap and superconducting states in underdoped high-temperature superconductors arise from a dynamical reduction in dimensionality, with a transition from 3D to 2D behavior influencing their properties.

Contribution

It introduces the concept that dimensional crossover underpins the pseudogap and superconducting transitions in cuprate HTSCs, linking Jahn-Teller distortions to these phenomena.

Findings

Transition to pseudogap state at T* involves 3D to 2D dimensional crossover.

Superconducting transition involves sequential crossovers from zero-dimensional to 2D and then 3D fluctuations.

Experimental evidence supports local hole-JT polaron pairs and dynamical dimension reduction.

Abstract

Dynamical Dimension Reduction in Underdoped High Temperature Superconductors G.G.Sergeeva (National Science Center "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology",Ukraine), V.L.Vakula (B.Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) Abstract For underdoped cuprate HTSC we discuss the supposition that both the pseudogap (PG) and supercoducting (SC) states result from dynamical dimension reduction when HTSC behaves on cooling if its dimensionality is changed. It is shown that the transition to the PG state occurs at the temperature T* as dimensional crossover when charges motion changes from the three dimensional (3D) to two-dimensional (2D). Namely two-dimensionality at T*>T is responsible for the crucial role of Jahn-Teller (JT) distortions which bound up with holes and form delocalized JT polarons and the localized three spin polarons in copper-oxygen planes that removes the competition between pairing carriers and their localization. At the cooling T*>T the SC transition occurs at Tc as a sequence of the crossovers from zero-dimensional to 2D SC fluctuations, and then to the 3D SC fluctuations. Some experimental evidence of the local hole-JT polaron pairs and dynamical dimension reduction in the PG and SC states are discussed.