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Implications of reflectance measurements on the mechanism for superconductivity in MgB2
1Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J1.
Abstract:
Recent optical studies in c-axis oriented superconducting MgB2 films indicate that the electron-phonon coupling is weak. We reinforce this conclusion by examining the raw reflectance data; its frequency dependence is incompatible with strong electron-phonon scattering. This is further strengthened by analysis of the real part of the conductivity, and by the temperature dependence of the effective Drude scattering rate. Using a realistic electron-phonon spectral shape, we find lambda(tr) approximately 0.15. To the extent that lambda(tr) approximately lambda, this disagrees sharply with model calculations, and is far too low to provide the means for T(c) = 39 K. A simple model is constructed with coupling to a high frequency excitation, which is consistent with both the low frequency optical data and the high T(c).
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