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a-b Plane Anisotropy in YBCO

W. Atkinson, J. P. Carbotte, C. O'Donovan

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9604104

Abstract

The zero temperature in plane penetration depth in an untwinned single crystal of optimally doped YBa2Cu3O6.93 is highly anisotropic. This fact has been interpreted as evidence that a large amount of the condensate resides in the chains. On the other hand, the temperature dependence of lambdaa(T)/lambdaa(0) and lambdab(T)/lambdab(0) (where the b-direction is along the chains) are not very different. This constrains theories and is, in particular, difficult to understand within a proximity model with d-wave pairing only in the CuO2 plane and none on the CuO chains but instead supports a more three dimensional models with interplane interactions.

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