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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 63, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.174513
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We study the effect of dissipation on quantum- and thermal-phase fluctuations in d-wave superconductors. Dissipation, arising from a nonzero low-frequency optical conductivity that has been measured in experiments below T-c, has two effects: (1) a reduction of zero-point phase fluctuations, and (2) a reduction of the temperature at which one crosses over to classical thermal fluctuations. For parameter values relevant to the cuprates, we show that the crossover temperature is still too large for classical phase fluctuations to play a significant role at low temperature. Quasiparticles are thus crucial in determining the linear temperature dependence of the in-plane superfluid stiffness. Thermal phase fluctuations become important at higher temperatures and play a role near T-c.
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