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Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Dec 30;89(27):277001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.277001. Epub 2002 Dec 18.

Josephson plasma resonance and phonon anomalies in trilayer Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10.

Physical review letters

A V Boris, D Munzar, N N Kovaleva, B Liang, C T Lin, A Dubroka, A V Pimenov, T Holden, B Keimer, Y-L Mathis, C Bernhard

Affiliations

  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.

PMID: 12513232 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.277001

Abstract

The far-infrared (FIR) c axis conductivity of a Bi2223 crystal has been measured by ellipsometry. Below T(c) a strong absorption band develops near 500 cm(-1), corresponding to a transverse Josephson plasmon. The related increase in FIR spectral weight leads to a giant violation of the Ferrell-Glover-Tinkham sum rule. The gain in c axis kinetic energy accounts for a sizable part of the condensation energy. We also observe phonon anomalies which suggest that the Josephson currents lead to a drastic variation of the local electric field within the block of closely spaced CuO2 planes.

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