SUPERSTRIPES

Abstract

A superconducting superlattice of quantum stripes with a particular shape that gives the amplification of the critical temperature is called "superstripes". This superlattice is characterized by: a) the metallic stripe width L of the order of the de Broglie wavelength of electrons at the Fermi level, L ~λ F , and b) the hopping of pairs between the stripes larger than the hopping of single electrons. "Superstripes" can be realized artificially to get new room temperature superconductors (RTS). This particular mesoscopic heterostructure at the atomic limit has been found as a self organized network of charges, in a short time and space scale, in doped cuprate perovskites near the micro-strain quantum critical point for "superstripes" formation.