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Condensation Energy and High Tc Superconductivity. | | | Review title: |
On the contributions to high Tc specific heat | | Reviewer: |
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29 September 2005 at 15:27 GMT. | | Read this article?: |
maybe to do a better calculation. | | Comment: | The authors extract the critical or singular contribution from the specific heat by substracting a BCS like contribution to the measured specific heat. There is a strong assumption behind this choice: the non-critical state of TI2201 is BCS like. This means that there is something, for example a gap Delta(T), that goes to zero at the critical temperature Tc with a discontinuity in the derivative with respect to temperature T.
This would mean that at Tc, there are two phase transitions: the first is due to this gap Delta(T) and produces the BCS like contribution to the specific heat. The second transition must be then related to an order parameter producing the singular contribution, for example an XY like order parameter.
The authors seem to be aware of this problem: \"The main source of this huge difference is the difficulty in determining the normal thermodynamic quantities.\"
I think that everyone would agree that there is only one phase transition at Tc. Hence, to me, this analysis should be taken with great care. | 
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