Evidence for nonuniversal behavior of paraconductivity caused by predominant short-wavelength Gaussian fluctuations in YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 6.9}
- Department of Physics-IMO, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
We report on in-plane paraconductivity measurements in thin YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 6.9} films. Our analysis of the data shows that the temperature dependence of paraconductivity is affected by lattice disorder and deviates at all temperatures from the universal power laws predicted by both scaling and mean-field theories. This gives evidence for the absence of critical fluctuations and for the failure of the Aslamazov-Larkin universal relation between critical exponent and dimensionality of the spectrum of Gaussian fluctuations. We account quantitatively for the data within the experimental error by introducing a short-wavelength cutoff into this spectrum. This implies that three-dimensional short-wavelength Gaussian fluctuations dominate in YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 6.9} and suggests a rapid attenuation of these fluctuations with decreasing wavelength in short-coherence-length systems as compared to the case of the conventional Ginzburg-Landau theory.
- OSTI ID:
- 55912
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 51, Issue 21; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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