Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity?
Superconducting properties of a material such as electron-electron interactions and the critical temperature of superconducting transition can be expressed via the effective dielectric response function εeff (q,ω) of the material. Such a description is valid on the spatial scales below the supercond...
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| description | Superconducting properties of a material such as electron-electron interactions and the critical temperature of superconducting transition can be expressed via the effective dielectric response function εeff (q,ω) of the material. Such a description is valid on the spatial scales below the superconducting coherence length (the size of the Cooper pair), which equals ∼100 nm in a typical BCS superconductor. Searching for natural materials exhibiting larger electron-electron interactions constitutes a traditional approach to high temperature superconductivity research. Here we point out that recently developed field of electromagnetic metamaterials deals with somewhat related task of dielectric response engineering on sub-100 nm scale. We argue that the metamaterial approach to dielectric response engineering may considerably increase the critical temperature of a composite superconductor-dielectric metamaterial. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-670a5dfadf4b41ffae146efaa3d94c8e2025-02-03T01:12:38ZengWileyAdvances in Condensed Matter Physics1687-81081687-81242014-01-01201410.1155/2014/479635479635Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity?Igor I. Smolyaninov0Vera N. Smolyaninova1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USADepartment of Physics Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252, USASuperconducting properties of a material such as electron-electron interactions and the critical temperature of superconducting transition can be expressed via the effective dielectric response function εeff (q,ω) of the material. Such a description is valid on the spatial scales below the superconducting coherence length (the size of the Cooper pair), which equals ∼100 nm in a typical BCS superconductor. Searching for natural materials exhibiting larger electron-electron interactions constitutes a traditional approach to high temperature superconductivity research. Here we point out that recently developed field of electromagnetic metamaterials deals with somewhat related task of dielectric response engineering on sub-100 nm scale. We argue that the metamaterial approach to dielectric response engineering may considerably increase the critical temperature of a composite superconductor-dielectric metamaterial.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/479635 |
| spellingShingle | Igor I. Smolyaninov Vera N. Smolyaninova Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity? Advances in Condensed Matter Physics |
| title | Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity? |
| title_full | Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity? |
| title_fullStr | Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity? |
| title_short | Is There a Metamaterial Route to High Temperature Superconductivity? |
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