Bussmann-Holder / Keller High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides

Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-71023-3
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 321 Seiten

This book presents theoretical as well as experimental articles focused on recent new results in high temperature superconductivity. All contributors are high ranking scientists who have done major work to enhance the understanding of this phenomenon. A few articles deal with ferroelectricity and its applications. The book is dedicated to Prof. Dr. K. Alex Müller on his 80th birthday. During his scientific career he made major advances in the understanding of ferroelectricity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bussmann-Holder, Annette

Keller, Hugo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;List of Authors;13
3;Contents;19
4;Superlight Small Bipolarons: A Route to Room Temperature Superconductivity;22
5;Mott Limit in High- Tc Cuprates;37
6;Perovskites and Their New Role in Oxide Electronics;49
7;Van Hove Scenario for High Tc Superconductors;55
8;Possible Jahn–Teller Effect and Strong Electron–Phonon Coupling in Beryllium Hydride;62
9;The Competing Interactions inMultiferroics and Their Possible Implications for HTSs;75
10;Site-Selective Oxygen-Isotope Exchange in YBa2Cu3O7–x;92
11;Coexistence of Order–Disorder and Displacive Behavior of KH2PO4 and Analogs from Electron Paramagnetic Resonance;102
12;The High Tc Cuprates as Nanoscale Inhomogeneous Superconductors;115
13;Essential Role of the Lattice in theMechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity;118
14;Shared Fascinations;145
15;Admixture of an s-Wave Component to the d-Wave Gap Symmetry in High- Temperature Superconductors;149
16;Electronic Inhomogeneities and Pairing from Unscreened Interactions in High- Tc Superconductors;156
17;Interplay of Jahn-Teller Physics andMott Physics in Cuprates;170
18;20 years High Pressure Materials Synthesis Group Activity After Discovery of High- Tc Superconductors;179
19;Two-Gap Superconductivity in the Cuprate Superconductor La1.83Sr0.17CuO4;188
20;Skyrmions in Lightly Doped Cuprates?;202
21;Lone Pairs, Bipolarons and Superconductivity in Tellurium;211
22;Carbon Based Superconductors;222
23;Band Renormalization Effect in Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+d;236
24;How Large is the Intrinsic Flux Noise of aMagnetic Flux Quantum, of Half a Flux Quantum and of a Vortex- Free Superconductor?;246
25;Lattice andMagnetic Excitations in Relation to Pairing and the Formation of Jahn– Teller Polaron Textures in Cuprates;252
26;Lattice Effects in High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates Revealed by X- ray Absorption Spectroscopy;261
27;Specific Heat of Na0.3CoO2·1.3H2O, a Novel Superconductor with Structural and Electronic Similarities to the High-Tc Cuprates;267
28;Quantum Superconductor-Metal Transition in Al, C doped MgB2 and Overdoped Cuprates?;277
29;Ferroelectric-on-Superconductor Devices;285
30;Electronic Phase Separation and Unusual Isotope Effects in La2–xSrxCuO4 Observed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance;294
31;Some Science History with a Mutual Connection;310
32;Reminiscences of Collaboration in 1986;318
33;Coupled Order Parameters in Magneto-Ferrolectrics;322
34;Author Index;327