HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering
Volume 1, Issue 4, pp. 771-781
© 2004 Holon Academic Institute of Technology

 

Incoherence and enhanced magnetic quantum oscillations in the mixed state of a layered organic superconductor

Vladimir M. Gvozdikov1,2 and Jochen Wosnitza3,*

1Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme,
D-01187 Dresden, Germany
2Kharkov National University, 61077, Kharkov, Ukraine
3Institut für Festkörperphysik,
Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
*Corresponding author: wosnitza@physik.tu-dresden.de
present address: Forschungszentrum Rossendorf,
Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD), 01314 Dresden, Germany

Received 20 January 2005, accepted 11 March 2005

 

We present a theory which is able to explain enhanced magnetic quantum-oscillation amplitudes in the superconducting state of a layered metal with incoherent electronic transport across the layers. The incoherence acts through the deformation of the layer-stacking factor which becomes complex and decreases the total scattering rate in the mixed state. This novel mechanism can compensate the usual decrease of the Dingle factor below the upper critical magnetic field caused by the intralayer scattering


PACS: 71.18.+y, 72.15.Gd, 74.70.Kn

 


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