Yn. Ovchinnikov et al., GENERATION AND DETECTION OF PAIRING BOSONS - A NEW METHOD TO DETERMINE THE MECHANISM OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN THE OXIDES, Journal of superconductivity, 11(2), 1998, pp. 323-325
We propose a new method to determine the coupling boson in the cuprate
superconductors based on the generation and detection of the appropri
ate boson analogous to the experiments performed on the generation and
detection of phonons by conventional BCS superconductors. The appropr
iate choice of substrate and junction detector will allow the unambigu
ous determination of the boson that is formed by the recombination of
energy gap edge quasiparticles produced by excitations into the normal
state of the cuprates.