High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides

by Bussmann-holder, Annette; Keller, Hugo

• ISBN13: 9783540710226
• ISBN10: 3540710221
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The book will consist of approximately 30 to 40 separate articles where the main focus is on recent new results in high temperature superconductivity. The contributions are theoretical as well as experimental ones. All scientists who contribute are high rank experts in this field and have done major work which has enhanced the understanding of this phenomenon. a smaller part of the articles deals with ferroelectricity and their applications. Also in this field there have recently been major break throughs experimentally as well as theoretically which will be addressed by the invited authors. The book is dedicated to Prof. Dr. K. Alex Müller on the occasion of his 80th birthday. During his scientific career he made major advances in the understanding of ferroelectricity, which used to be his major research field. The discovery of superconductivity in cuprates for which he received together with Dr. J. Georg Bednorz the Nobel Prize in 1987 has not diminished his interest in this area, but has enlarged his activities considerably. In high temperature superconductivity he activated major research areas which are highlighted in this book by many contributions.

Table of Contents

Superlight Small Bipolarons: A Route to Room Temperature Superconductivity	p. 1
Mott Limit in High-T[subscript c] Cuprates	p. 17
Perovskites and Their New Role in Oxide Electronics	p. 29
Van Hove Scenario for High T[subscript c] Superconductors	p. 35
Possible Jahn-Teller Effect and Strong Electron-Phonon Coupling in Beryllium Hydride	p. 43
The Competing Interactions in Multiferroics and Their Possible Implications for HTSs	p. 57
Site-Selective Oxygen-Isotope Exchange in YBa[subscript 2]Cu[subscript 3]O[subscript 7_x]	p. 75
Coexistence of Order-Disorder and Displacive Behavior of KH[subscript 2]PO[subscript 4] and Analogs from Electron Paramagnetic Resonance	p. 85
The High T[subscript c] Cuprates as Nanoscale Inhomogeneous Superconductors	p. 99
Essential Role of the Lattice in the Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity	p. 103
Shared Fascinations	p. 131
Admixture of an s-Wave Component to the d-Wave Gap Symmetry in High-Temperature Superconductors	p. 135
Electronic Inhomogeneities and Pairing from Unscreened Interactions in High-T[subscript c] Superconductors	p. 143
Interplay of Jahn-Teller Physics and Mott Physics in Cuprates	p. 157
20 years High Pressure Materials Synthesis Group Activity After Discovery of High-T[subscript c] Superconductors	p. 167
Two-Gap Superconductivity in the Cuprate Superconductor La[subscript 1.83]Sr[subscript 0.17]CuO[subscript 4]	p. 177
Skyrmions in Lightly Doped Cuprates?	p. 191
Lone Pairs, Bipolarons and Superconductivity in Tellurium	p. 201
Carbon Based Superconductors	p. 213
Band Renormalization Effect in Bi[subscript 2]Sr[subscript 2]Ca[subscript 2]Cu[subscript 3]O[subscript 10+delta]	p. 227
How Large is the Intrinsic Flux Noise of a Magnetic Flux Quantum, of Half a Flux Quantum and of a Vortex-Free Superconductor?	p. 237
Lattice and Magnetic Excitations in Relation to Pairing and the Formation of Jahn-Teller Polaron Textures in Cuprates	p. 243
Lattice Effects in High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates Revealed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy	p. 253
Specific Heat of Na[subscript 0.3]CoO[subscript 2], 1.3H[subscript 2]O, a Novel Superconductor with Structural and Electronic Similarities to the High-T[subscript c] Cuprates	p. 259
Quantum Superconductor-Metal Transition in Al, C doped MgB[subscript 2] and Overdoped Cuprates?	p. 269
Ferroelectric-on-Superconductor Devices	p. 277
Electronic Phase Separation and Unusual Isotope Effects in La[subscript 2-x]Sr[subscript x]CuO[subscript 4] Observed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance	p. 287
Some Science History with a Mutual Connection	p. 303
Reminiscences of Collaboration in 1986	p. 311
Coupled Order Parameters in Magneto-Ferrolectrics	p. 315
Author Index	p. 321
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