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Zero-temperature d-wave superconducting phase transition
1Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.
Physical Review Letters
|September 6, 2000
Abstract:
The Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson theory that describes the disordered-metal- d-wave-superconductor phase transition at zero temperature is derived at weak coupling. The theory represents an interacting dissipative system of bosonic Cooper pairs in an effective random potential. I show that there exists a wide crossover regime in the theory controlled by a line of Gaussian fixed points, each of which in two dimensions is characterized by a different universal value of the dc critical conductivity. Relation to experiments on overdoped and underdoped cuprates is discussed.